In this video we perform a full step by step build of a .NET MAUI App that we test on both Windows and Android. The app interacts with a separate .NET 6 API that we also build step by step.

Level: Beginner

⏲️ Time Codes ⏲️

Theory

- 0:48 Welcome
- 03:13 App demo
- 06:07 Course overview
- 09:14 Ingedients
- 10:10 What is .NET MAUI?
- 12:48 How MAUI works
- 15:14 MAUI project anatomy
- 19:47 MAUI App start up sequence
- 22:29 UI Conepts
- 28:21 XAML vs C#
- 30:29 Solution Architecture
- 31:41 Application Architecture


API Build

- 35:31 API Project Set up
- 42:41 API Model definition
- 44:47 API Db Context
- 47:13 Connection String
- 52:19 Migrations
- 56:31 API Read Endpoint
- 1:01:58 API Create Endpoint
- 1:08:15 API Update Endpoint
- 1:12:57 API Delete Endpoint

MAUI App Build

- 1:17:21 MAUI App Project Set up
- 1:21:00 Android Device Manager
- 1:25:08 MAUI Model definition
- 1:31:16 Data Service Interface
- 1:35:40 Data Service Implementation
- 1:47:27 Data Service Read Method
- 1:53:34 Data Service Create Method
- 1:58:48 Data Service Delete Method
- 2:01:53 Data Service Update Method
- 2:05:41 Android environment config
- 2:11:00 Architecture check point
- 2:11:54 Register MainPage for DI
- 2:14:13 MainPage code-behind
- 2:21:03 MainPage XAML Layout
- 2:30:19 Re-work MainPage layout
- 2:35:12 Add another page (ManagePage)
- 2:38:01 Adding a Route
- 2:30:01 Regiter ManagePage for DI
- 2:40:29 Complete MainPage code-behind
- 2:45:12 ManagePage code-behind
- 2:51:16 QueryProperty
- 2:57:34 ManagePage XMAL
- 3:07:56 Run on Windows
- 3:09:30 Re-work ManagePage layout
- 3:16:26 Using HttpClientFactory

Outro

- 3:21:02 Wrap up and thanks
- 3:21:31 Supporter Credits 

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    public interface ICalculator<T>
    {
        T Add(T operand1, T operand2);
    }

    public class Calculator<T> : ICalculator<T>
    {
        public T Add(T operand1, T operand2)
        {
            return operand1 + operand2;
        }
    }

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    public class Calculator2<T>
    {
        public T Sum(List<T> list)
        {
            T sum = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
                sum += list[i];
            return sum;
        }
    }

    public interface ICalculator<T>
    {
        T Add(T operand1, T operand2);
    }

    public class Int32Calculator : ICalculator<int>
    {
        public int Add(int operand1, int operand2)
        {
            return operand1 + operand2;
        }
    }

    public class AlgorithmLibrary<T> where T : new() 
    {
        private readonly ICalculator<T> _calculator;
        public AlgorithmLibrary(ICalculator<T> calculator)
        {
            _calculator = calculator;
        }

        public T Sum(List<T> items)
        {
            var sum = new T();
            for (var i = 0; i < items.Count; i++)
            {
                sum = _calculator.Add(sum, items[i]);
            }
            return sum;
        }
    }

 var result = new AlgorithmLibrary<int>(new Int32Calculator()).Sum(new List<int> { 1, 2, 3 });

    public class Algorithms<T> where T : new() 
    {
        public T Calculate(Func<T, T, T> add, IEnumerable<T> numbers)
        {
            var sum = new T();
            foreach (var number in numbers)
            {
                sum = add(sum, number);
            }
            return sum;
        }
    }

 var result = new Algorithms<int>().Calculate((a, b) => a + b, new[] { 1, 2, 3 });

    public class Calculator<T> : ICalculator<T>
    {
        public T Add(T operand1, T operand2)
        {
            return (dynamic)operand1 + operand2;
        }
    }

 var test = new Calculator<int>().Add(1, 2);

public T Add(T t1, T t2)
{
    if (typeof(T) == typeof(double))
    {
        var d1 = (double)t1;
        var d2 = (double)t2;
        return (T)(d1 + d2);
    }
    else if (typeof(T) == typeof(int)){
        var i1 = (int)t1;
        var i2 = (int)t2;
        return (T)(i1 + i2);
    }
    else ...
}

using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;

namespace GenericsArithmetic
{
    public class Solution3
    {
        public T Add<T>(T a, T b)
        {
            var paramA = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), "a");
            var paramB = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), "b");

            var body = Expression.Add(paramA, paramB);
            var add = Expression.Lambda<Func<T, T, T>>(body, paramA, paramB).Compile();
            return add(a, b);
        }
    }
}

public static T Sum<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
    T sum = Operator<T>.Zero;
    foreach (T value in source)
    {
            sum = Operator.Add(sum, value);
    }
    return sum;
}
 

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression

{
    "dependencies": {
        "Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression": "1.0.0"
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
    {
        options.MimeTypes = Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes;
    });
}

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defaults for the ResponseCompressionMiddleware
    /// </summary>
    public class ResponseCompressionDefaults
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Default MIME types to compress responses for.
        /// </summary>
        // This list is not intended to be exhaustive, it's a baseline for the 90% case.
        public static readonly IEnumerable<string> MimeTypes = new[]
        {
            // General
            "text/plain",
            // Static files
            "text/css",
            "application/javascript",
            // MVC
            "text/html",
            "application/xml",
            "text/xml",
            "application/json",
            "text/json",
        };
    }
}

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
    options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[]
                                {
                                    "image/svg+xml",
                                    "application/font-woff2"
                                });
            });

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
  //If no compression providers are specified then GZip is used by default.
  //options.Providers.Add<GzipCompressionProvider>();

services.Configure<GzipCompressionProviderOptions>(options =>
{
  options.Level = System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel.Optimal;
});

 options.EnableForHttps = true;

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
   app.UseResponseCompression()  // Adds the response compression to the request pipeline
   .UseStaticFiles(); // Adds the static middleware to the request pipeline  
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
                      IHostingEnvironment env,
                      ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
    app.UseResponseCompression()
       .UseStaticFiles(
           new StaticFileOptions
           {
               OnPrepareResponse =
                   _ => _.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] = 
                        "public,max-age=604800" // A week in seconds
           })
       .UseMvc(routes => routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"));
}

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
                            .AddRedirectToHttps()
                            .AddRewrite(@"app/(\d+)", "app?id=$1", skipRemainingRules: false) // Rewrite based on a Regular expression
                            //.AddRedirectToHttps(302, 5001) // Redirect to a different port and use HTTPS
                            .AddRedirect("(.*)/$", "$1")  // remove trailing slash, Redirect using a regular expression
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section1/(.*)", "new/$1", (int)HttpStatusCode.Redirect)
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section2/(\\d+)/(.*)", "new/$1/$2", (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently)
                            .AddRewrite("^feed$", "/?format=rss", skipRemainingRules: false));

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
.AddIISUrlRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, "web.config")
.AddApacheModRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, ".htaccess"));

public class RedirectWwwRule : Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite.IRule
{
    public int StatusCode { get; } = (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently;
    public bool ExcludeLocalhost { get; set; } = true;
    public void ApplyRule(RewriteContext context)
    {
        var request = context.HttpContext.Request;
        var host = request.Host;
        if (host.Host.StartsWith("www", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        if (ExcludeLocalhost && string.Equals(host.Host, "localhost", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        string newPath = request.Scheme + "://www." + host.Value + request.PathBase + request.Path + request.QueryString;
 
        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.StatusCode = StatusCode;
        response.Headers[HeaderNames.Location] = newPath;
        context.Result = RuleResult.EndResponse; // Do not continue processing the request
    }
}

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions().Add(new RedirectWwwRule()));

 var options = new RewriteOptions().Add(app.ApplicationServices.GetService<RedirectWwwRule>());

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xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005">
  <TemplateData>
    <Name>MyConsoleApplication</Name>
    <Description>MyConsoleApplication Desc</Description>
    <ProjectType>CSharp</ProjectType>
  </TemplateData>
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      <ProjectTemplateLink ProjectName="MyConsoleApplication">
      MyConsoleApplication\MyTemplate.vstemplate</ProjectTemplateLink>
      <ProjectTemplateLink ProjectName="MyConsoleApplication.Tests">
      MyConsoleApplication.Tests\MyTemplate.vstemplate</ProjectTemplateLink>
    </ProjectCollection>
  </TemplateContent>
</VSTemplate>

<VSContent xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vscontent/2005">
  <Content>
    <FileName>MyConsoleApplicationTemplates.zip</FileName>
    <DisplayName>MyConsoleApplication</DisplayName>
    <Description>A C# project that ...</Description>
    <FileContentType>VSTemplate</FileContentType>
    <ContentVersion>1.0</ContentVersion>
    <Attributes>
      <Attribute name="ProjectType" value="Visual C#" />
      <Attribute name="ProjectSubType" value="Web" />
      <Attribute name="TemplateType" value="Project" />
    </Attributes>
  </Content>
</VSContent>

dotnet tool update -g Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager.Cli
libman init
libman install bootstrap --provider unpkg --destination wwwroot/lib/bootstrap
libman install open-iconic --provider unpkg --destination wwwroot/lib/open-iconic

@import url('open-iconic/font/css/open-iconic-bootstrap.min.css');

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>BlazorServer.App</title>
    <base href="~/" />
    <link href="lib/open-iconic/font/css/open-iconic-bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="css/site.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="BlazorServer.App.styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace BlazorServer.Entities
{
    public class HotelRoom
    {
        [Key]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public int Occupancy { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public decimal RegularRate { get; set; }

        public string Details { get; set; }

        public string SqFt { get; set; }

        public string CreatedBy { get; set; }

        public DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; } = DateTime.Now;

        public string UpdatedBy { get; set; }

        public DateTime UpdatedDate { get; set; }
    }
}

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\BlazorServer.Entities\BlazorServer.Entities.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="5.0.3" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="5.0.3">
      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

using BlazorServer.Entities;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

namespace BlazorServer.DataAccess
{
    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<HotelRoom> HotelRooms { get; set; }

        public ApplicationDbContext(DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> options) : base(options)
        { }
    }
}

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\BlazorServer.DataAccess\BlazorServer.DataAccess.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="5.0.3" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design" Version="5.0.3">
      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

namespace BlazorServer.App
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...
 
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            var connectionString = Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection");
            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options => options.UseSqlServer(connectionString));

            // ...

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=HotelManagement;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
  }
}

dotnet tool update --global dotnet-ef --version 5.0.3
dotnet build
dotnet ef migrations --startup-project ../BlazorServer.App/ add Init --context ApplicationDbContext
dotnet ef --startup-project ../BlazorServer.App/ database update --context ApplicationDbContext

using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public record HotelRoomDTO
    {
        public int Id { get; init; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the room's name")]
        public string Name { get; init; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the occupancy")]
        public int Occupancy { get; init; }

        [Range(1, 3000, ErrorMessage = "Regular rate must be between 1 and 3000")]
        public decimal RegularRate { get; init; }

        public string Details { get; init; }

        public string SqFt { get; init; }
    }
}

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\BlazorServer.Entities\BlazorServer.Entities.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\BlazorServer.Models\BlazorServer.Models.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection" Version="8.1.1" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

using AutoMapper;
using BlazorServer.Entities;

namespace BlazorServer.Models.Mappings
{
    public class MappingProfile : Profile
    {
        public MappingProfile()
        {
            CreateMap<HotelRoomDTO, HotelRoom>().ReverseMap(); // two-way mapping
        }
    }
}

namespace BlazorServer.App
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddAutoMapper(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies());

            // ...

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using BlazorServer.Models;

namespace BlazorServer.Services
{
    public interface IHotelRoomService
    {
        Task<HotelRoomDTO> CreateHotelRoomAsync(HotelRoomDTO hotelRoomDTO);

        Task<int> DeleteHotelRoomAsync(int roomId);

        IAsyncEnumerable<HotelRoomDTO> GetAllHotelRoomsAsync();

        Task<HotelRoomDTO> GetHotelRoomAsync(int roomId);

        Task<HotelRoomDTO> IsRoomUniqueAsync(string name);

        Task<HotelRoomDTO> UpdateHotelRoomAsync(int roomId, HotelRoomDTO hotelRoomDTO);
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using AutoMapper;
using AutoMapper.QueryableExtensions;
using BlazorServer.DataAccess;
using BlazorServer.Entities;
using BlazorServer.Models;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

namespace BlazorServer.Services
{
    public class HotelRoomService : IHotelRoomService
    {
        private readonly ApplicationDbContext _dbContext;
        private readonly IMapper _mapper;
        private readonly IConfigurationProvider _mapperConfiguration;

        public HotelRoomService(ApplicationDbContext dbContext, IMapper mapper)
        {
            _dbContext = dbContext ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(dbContext));
            _mapper = mapper ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(mapper));
            _mapperConfiguration = mapper.ConfigurationProvider;
        }

        public async Task<HotelRoomDTO> CreateHotelRoomAsync(HotelRoomDTO hotelRoomDTO)
        {
            var hotelRoom = _mapper.Map<HotelRoom>(hotelRoomDTO);
            hotelRoom.CreatedDate = DateTime.Now;
            hotelRoom.CreatedBy = "";
            var addedHotelRoom = await _dbContext.HotelRooms.AddAsync(hotelRoom);
            await _dbContext.SaveChangesAsync();
            return _mapper.Map<HotelRoomDTO>(addedHotelRoom.Entity);
        }

        public async Task<int> DeleteHotelRoomAsync(int roomId)
        {
            var roomDetails = await _dbContext.HotelRooms.FindAsync(roomId);
            if (roomDetails == null)
            {
                return 0;
            }

            _dbContext.HotelRooms.Remove(roomDetails);
            return await _dbContext.SaveChangesAsync();
        }

        public IAsyncEnumerable<HotelRoomDTO> GetAllHotelRoomsAsync()
        {
            return _dbContext.HotelRooms
                        .ProjectTo<HotelRoomDTO>(_mapperConfiguration)
                        .AsAsyncEnumerable();
        }

        public Task<HotelRoomDTO> GetHotelRoomAsync(int roomId)
        {
            return _dbContext.HotelRooms
                            .ProjectTo<HotelRoomDTO>(_mapperConfiguration)
                            .FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Id == roomId);
        }

        public Task<HotelRoomDTO> IsRoomUniqueAsync(string name)
        {
            return _dbContext.HotelRooms
                            .ProjectTo<HotelRoomDTO>(_mapperConfiguration)
                            .FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Name == name);
        }

        public async Task<HotelRoomDTO> UpdateHotelRoomAsync(int roomId, HotelRoomDTO hotelRoomDTO)
        {
            if (roomId != hotelRoomDTO.Id)
            {
                return null;
            }

            var roomDetails = await _dbContext.HotelRooms.FindAsync(roomId);
            var room = _mapper.Map(hotelRoomDTO, roomDetails);
            room.UpdatedBy = "";
            room.UpdatedDate = DateTime.Now;
            var updatedRoom = _dbContext.HotelRooms.Update(room);
            await _dbContext.SaveChangesAsync();
            return _mapper.Map<HotelRoomDTO>(updatedRoom.Entity);
        }
    }
}

namespace BlazorServer.App
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddScoped<IHotelRoomService, HotelRoomService>();

         // ...

using MyConsole = System.Console;

MyConsole.WriteLine("Test console");

// Namespace alias
using SuperJSON = System.Text.Json;
var document = SuperJSON.JsonSerializer.Serialize("{}");

// Type alias
using SuperJSON = System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer;
var document = SuperJSON.Serialize("{}");

using UnityEngine;
using System;

Random rnd = new Random();

var rnd = new System.Random();

using Random = System.Random;

using Ints = int[];
using DatabaseInt = int?;
using OptionalFloat = float?;
using Grade= decimal;
using Point3D = (int, int, int);
using Person = (string name, int age, string country);
using unsafe P = char*;
using Matrix = int[][];

Matrix aMatrix = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]];

using MyConsole = System.Console;
using Person = (string name, int age, string country);

Person person = new("User 1", 33, "Iran");
Console.WriteLine(person);
PrintPerson(person);

MyConsole.WriteLine("Test console");

static void PrintPerson(Person person)
{
   MyConsole.WriteLine($"{person.name}, {person.age}, {person.country}");
}

(User 1, 33, Iran)
User 1, 33, Iran
Test console

using Companies = System.Collections.Generic.List<Company>;

Companies GetCompanies()
{
   // logic here
}

class Company
{
   public string Name;
   public int Id;
}

using EventHandlers = System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<System.Func<System.Threading.Tasks.Task>>;

using Country = (string Abbreviation, string Name);

Country GetCountry(string abbreviation)
{
   // Logic here
}

List<Country> GetCountries()
{
   // Logic here
}

using Ints = int[];
using DatabaseInt = int?;
using OptionalFloat = float?;