Microsoft has formally launched its .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) framework, offering .NET builders a cross-platform stack for constructing person interfaces.
The .NET MAUI framework targets Home windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS, permitting builders to create UIs in C# and XAML for all platforms from single codebase. Its arrival is taken into account a milestone in Microsoft’s efforts to unify the .NET platform, bringing .NET Core and Mono/Xamarin collectively in a single base class library and one toolchain (SDK).
Unveiled Could 23, this GA launch of .NET MAUI follows three launch candidates and 14 previews. Directions for getting began with .NET MAUI might be discovered on the .NET web site.
With .NET MAUI, the first aim is supply of the very best app expertise on every platform whereas enabling builders to craft constant model experiences by graphics and wealthy styling, Microsoft stated. Builders use C# and XAML to construct apps from a toolkit of greater than 40 controls, layouts, and pages. .NET MAUI Integrates with the Blazor framework for constructing shopper net apps with C#, so builders can reuse present Blazor net UI elements in native cellular and desktop apps.
.NET MAUI is supported underneath the present launch schedule of 18 months and will likely be serviced on the similar month-to-month cadence as .NET. Microsoft stated that MAUI’s arrival is just the start of efforts to create a desktop and cellular expertise for .NET builders. The subsequent part is ready to ivolve bringing plugins, libraries, and providers from .NET Framework and the previous undertaking system to .NET 6 and SDK-style tasks.
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