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Getting Started with .NET MAUI

Since the release of .NET 5, Microsoft has been trying to unify different .NET implementations into one .NET release. .NET Multi-platform App UI (or .NET MAUI) is the effort to provide a unified cross-platform UI framework. We will learn how to use .NET MAUI to develop cross-platform applications in this book.

The following is what we will cover in this chapter:

  • Overview of cross-platform technologies
  • Comparison of cross-platform technologies (.NET, Java, and JavaScript)
  • .NET landscape and the history of Xamarin
  • .NET MAUI features
  • .NET MAUI Blazor apps
  • What’s new in .NET 8 for .NET MAUI?
  • Development environment setup

If you’re new to .NET development, this chapter will help you to understand the .NET landscape. ...

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