An Introduction to .NET MAUI For Mobile Development

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML.
.NET MAUI is open-source and is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, extended from mobile to desktop scenarios, with UI controls rebuilt from the ground up for performance and extensibility. If you've previously used Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform user interfaces, you'll notice many similarities with .NET MAUI. However, there are also some differences. Using .NET MAUI, you can create multi-platform apps using a single project, but you can add platform-specific source code and resources if necessary. One of the key aims of .NET MAUI is to enable you to implement as much of your app logic and UI layout as possible in a single code-base.

0:00 - Setup Visual Studio and MAUI Project
00:16:25 - Create MAUI Pages with C#
00:27:42 - Create MAUI Pages with XAML
00:32:28 - Explore MAUI Layouts
00:39:38 - Static Shared Resources
00:44:36 - Platform Specific Values
00:50:11 - Page Navigation  

A simple utility to execute a callback when a webfont loads.  Demo

This uses the CSS Font Loading Module when available (currently in Chrome 35+ and Opera 22+). When that isn’t available, it uses a very similar approach to the one used in the TypeKit Web Font Loader (which is currently 7.1KB GZIP).

Basically, it creates an element with a font stack including the web font and a default serif/sans-serif typeface. It then uses a test string and measures the dimensions of the element at a certain interval. When the dimensions are different than the default fallback fonts, the font is considered to have loaded successfully.

If you’d like a full polyfill for the CSS Font Loading Module, follow along with Bram Stein’s Font Loader. I believe the specification has changed since he launched this polyfill, but he’s working on an updated version. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.2:

• Publish single file context menu item missing.
• Git network operations not working: Cannot spawn git-askpass.exe.
• "Visual C++ Resource Editor Package" load failed.
• Preview Transform gives error.
• Cannot type close brace.
• Object reference not set to an instance of an object when deploying Service Fabric project after update 15.8.0.
• "The given path's format is not supported" installation error.
• Task ExpandPriContent failed. Illegal characters in path.
• "Could not create instance of type System.Collections.Genertic.Iset'1[Signer]" installer error.
• Service fabric deployment fails in 15.8.0.
• Cannot create app package for Windows store.
• Incorrect code generation for strongly-typed resources.
• Keyboard binding for Italian layout.
• IntelliSense broken #9999.
• When working on a Unity project and Unity rewrites multiple project files, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity will now automatically reload the solution.
• The customer will now get a dialog to close Office applications if they are blocking the Visual Studio install and causing a failure of 1303. 

Greatly improved download experience: when the C# extension is downloaded from the VS Code Marketplace 

Issues Fixed in 15.9.21

• Fixed a bug where the .NET Profiling tools couldn't be installed on non-enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2017 when using an offline installer.
• Fixed C++ compiler bug where a static_cast in a decltype would evaluate incorrectly. To minimize disruptions to existing codebases, in VS2017 this fix takes effect when the (newly added) /d1decltypeIdentityConversion switch is thrown.
• New Spectre mitigation options in C++ compiler: /Qspectre-load & /Qspectre-load-cf for speculative load hardening.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• A spoofing vulnerability exists when creating an Outlook Web-Addin if multi-factor authentication is enabled

Twitter: "Want to throw together a quick web application in C#? This is what that will look like in the future.

Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the Framework has already analyzed the problem, built a structure to contain its details, examined the stack trace, and used reflection to pinpoint the location of the error, among other mundane tasks. In short, when errors occur, .NET serves them up to your code in a neatly packaged, highly examinable data block.

With the release of Visual Studio 2015 came the (final) release of the Roslyn C# compiler and C# 6. This latest version of C#’s feature list seems to be…less than exciting, but it’s important to keep in mind that before Roslyn, none of these new features would have ever made it into a release. It was simply too hard to add a feature in C#, so higher impact/value features made it in while minor annoyances/enhancements would be deferred, indefinitely 

C# is usually thought of as a backend, server-side language. But with the Blazor-Web Assembly combo, developers can use it for client-side as well. 

 AForge.NET is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence – image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, robotics.