The desktop is here to stay. Sam Basu reviews how you can take advantage of the latest in .NET technologies and still build the apps your customers demand. 

Sam covers Windows Forms, XAML (UWP, WinUI), Progressive Web Apps, Electron, Blazor Mobile Bindings, .NET MAUI and building for Mac OS and Linux.  

Microsoft Learn For .NET
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Learn .NET MAUI - Full Course for Beginners | Tutorial for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows in C#
Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio! In this full workshop, I will walk you through everything you need to know about .NET MAUI and building your very first app. You will learn the basics including how to build user interfaces with XAML, how MVVM and data binding simplify development, how to navigate between pages, access platform features like geolocation, optimize data collections, and theme your app for light theme and dark theme. This course has everything you need to learn the basics and set you up for success when building apps with .NET MAUI!

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro to the .NET MAUI Workshop
00:04:10 - What is .NET MAUI & How to Install
00:06:25 - Workshop overview
00:08:00 - First .NET MAUI app & Architecture (slides)
00:21:40 - Get code to build your first .NET MAUI app
00:25:00 - .NET MAUI Project Walkthrough
00:29:40 - Start to build first .NET MAUI app
00:56:48 - Intro to MVVM (slides)
01:09:30 - Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
01:22:30 - .NET Community Toolkit for MVVM (Source Generators)
01:32:30 - HTTP REST Calls & JSON Deserialization
01:43:00 - ICommand in .NET MAUI
01:59:30 - Create our UI with XAML & MVVM
02:16:20 - Navigation in .NET MAUI (slides)
02:25:20 - Implementing Navigation in .NET MAUI & Passing Parameters
02:46:00 - Building a details UI with XAML & MVVM
02:54:10 - Modal, Back Navigation, & More
02:58:20 - Access Platform APIs in .NET MAUI (slides)
03:02:53 - Platform API Integration - Connectivity
03:08:30 - Geolocation & Permissions Implementation
03:18:50 - Open Map Integration
03:22:40 - Platform Specifics - iOS Safe Area
03:25:50 - CollectionView & RefreshView Overview (slides)
03:34:00 - Implementing Pull-to-Refresh
03:40:00 - CollectionView Layouts - Grids and more
03:41:30 - CollectionView EmptyView
03:45:00 - App Resources, Styles, and Themes (slides)
03:56:20 - Implementing Light & Dark Mode
04:06:00 - Thanks, wrap-up, and resources 

At Build 2019, Microsoft announced the release date for .NET Core 3.0 to be this coming September. This release includes the highly touted support for desktop platforms like WinForms and WPF. Today, there’s still a large developer base that’s building desktop applications using these .NET Windows desktop frameworks and by using .NET Core 3.0, you can now build desktop applications on the .NET Core platform. 

Last year, Mike Rousos posted a great post about token authentication on the .NET blog and demonstrated how you could leverage ASP.NET Core Identity and OpenIddict to create your own tokens in a completely standard way.  

This past week of the bootcamp was devoted to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web API. In other words, students learned how to build the server-side half of their full stack Web apps. By this point in the camp, students understand how all of the various pieces of a modern web app fit together. 

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