.NET MAUI FOR C# DEVELOPERS build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications /: build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez ; foreword by Maddy Montaquila.
• Authors: Liberty, Jesse; Juarez, Rodrigo
• Other Names: Montaquila, Maddy writer of foreword.
• Contents: Cover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 -- Getting Started -- Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App -- Technical requirements -- Getting and installing Visual Studio -- Installing Visual Studio -- Git -- Opening Visual Studio -- Quick tour of the app -- Summary -- Quiz -- You try it -- Chapter 2: What We Will Build: Forget Me Not -- Technical requirements -- What is Forget Me Not? -- Buddies -- Inviting Buddies -- Other pages -- What you'll learn -- Summary -- Chapter 3: XAML and Fluent C# -- Technical requirements Understanding the structure of XAML -- The code-behind file -- Exploring the layout options -- VerticalStackLayout -- Image -- Label -- Code-behind and event handlers -- If you can do it in XAML, you can do it in C# -- C# versus Fluent C# -- Summary -- Quiz -- Try it out -- Chapter 4: MVVM and Controls -- Technical requirements -- Setting up for MVVM -- Creating folders -- The MVVM Community Toolkit -- Exploring views -- Forget Me Not labels -- Data binding -- Creating a public property -- Setting up BindingContext -- Assigning values to the View Model class properties -- Implementing Binding ViewModel versus code-behind -- Views -- Images -- Button properties -- ImageButton -- TapGestureRecognizer -- Entering text -- Behaviors -- Popups and dialogs -- Presenting the user with a choice -- ActionSheet -- Displaying a prompt -- Toast -- Snackbar -- BoxView -- Frame -- Brushes -- The Solid brush -- LinearGradientBrush -- RadialGradientBrush -- Summary -- Quiz -- You try it -- Chapter 5: Advanced Controls -- Technical requirements -- Keeping the user informed of activity -- ActivityIndicator -- ProgressBar -- Moving event handling to ViewModel -- Breaking it down Sending and receiving messages -- Getting started with WeakReferenceMessenger -- Creating the page in C# -- Displaying collections -- Overriding OnAppearing -- Understanding how the service works -- Displaying the collection of Preference objects -- The code-behind -- Styles -- Explicit versus implicit styles -- Style inheritance or BasedOn -- Summary -- Quiz -- You try it -- Chapter 6: Layout -- Technical requirements -- Stack layouts -- Grid -- Sizing rows and columns -- Named rows and columns -- ScrollView -- FlexLayout -- Summary -- Quiz -- You try it -- Part 2 -- Intermediate Topics Chapter 7: Understanding Navigation -- Technical requirements -- Exploring the TabBar -- Creating the About and Buddies pages -- Assembling the About page -- Shell navigation -- Routing -- Passing values from page to page -- Passing values with the url (?) syntax -- Passing values with a dictionary -- Summary -- Quiz -- You try it -- Chapter 8: Storing and Retrieving Data -- Technical requirements -- Storing user preferences -- UserPreferencesViewModel -- Navigating to UserPreferences -- Retrieving the preferences -- Storing to a database on your device -- Installing SQLite
• Publisher Details: S.l. : PACKT PUBLISHING LIMITED
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.2/76; Application software -- Development; C# (Computer program language); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781837631520; 1837631522
• Related ISBNs: 1837631697; 9781837631698
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