Working with .NET MAUI Styles - .NET MAUI 101

[@jfversluis]

Want to learn more about .NET MAUI? More snack-sized videos can be found on the .NET MAUI 101 playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5LSXqKOe9qUa8k How about this follow-up video from this and implement not just styles, but styles with light and dark theme support: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5LSXqKOe9qUa8k

[@architpoddar]

Hey Gerald, amazing content as always. :) Would really appreciate a separate video explaining VisualStates and MergedDictionaries.

[@jfversluis]

Great suggestions, thank you!

[@MrSlowGain]

Thanks Gerald. Would love a run down on visual states. In particular with CarouselView and how that ties in with the CurrentItem...or selected item.- not sure it doesn't seem to have a selection mode like CollectionView. Has me confuse-ed.

[@jfversluis]

Putting it on the list, thanks!

[@schulz5patrick]

Nice video as always. But how can you set the fontfamily application wide ? you would have to need to set the fontfamily to each element which can contain a text. Also changing the fontfamily of Title-property inside ShellContent etc. can't be done

[@Mielesplayz]

My earbuds didnt work for weeks and now, this is the first time I can watch your video with sounds XD

[@jfversluis]

Haha congrats on the working earbuds! Hope my voice is everything you expected it to be! :P

[@Mielesplayz]

@@jfversluis thanks, you have a nice voice btw

[@doublebass120]

Great content as always, Gerald. I tend to separate my resource dictionaries into separate xaml files (one for colors, one for brushes, one for control templates, one for values, one for styles). I brought this concept over from my WPF days into xamarin, but I had to come up with a janky solution to wire it up. Can you please go over merged dictionaries with MAUI?

[@jfversluis]

That’s definitely a good approach! Merged dictionaries is a good one! I’ll add that to the list

[@julybrown4916]

Content worth my subscription. Thanks for you for taking us along this journey.

[@jfversluis]

Thanks so much July! I appreciate your support!

[@terryhenning8325]

Is there a way to get styles to work appwide if the control is not native? For example, I tried to apply a style to "Popup" from the Community Toolkit, but it would not work unless I put it right in the the XAML for my Popup subclass. I tried this in the styles.xaml file...

[@metacapitalism5113]

scenario: Windows and Android deployment. On Android's small screen Left, Right Padding of X. On windes of 3 times X. Which is preferable DynamicResource or StaticResource. And I presume Themes are for a different use case example.

[@terryhenning8325]

Thank you for this video on a topic that doesn't get enough attention!!

[@jfversluis]

Absolutely true! Anything else you’d like to see more about here?

[@terryhenning8325]

@@jfversluis Thank you for responding! I've put some thought into this, and I would like to know more about shell/non-shell in MAUI apps, specifically with the use of tabs in the UI. I use MVVM with the toolkit, so I am using DI pretty heavily. I found that "TabbedPage" doesn't seem to support DI because it expects a default constructor. That got me wondering about tabs, and the differences between shell/non-shell apps. I am not targeting mobile, just Windows/Mac desktop, so maybe Shell is not for me? But because I am using DI, does that mean I must use ShellApp? I realize that's a complex topic and maybe not suited to a short KZbin video.

[@terryhenning8325]

@@jfversluis Would also love to see something about logging. It doesn't seem to get any attention. Thanks! 😀

[@jfversluis]

@@terryhenning8325 Client-Side Logging in .NET MAUI with MetroLog.Maui kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZrGnqF-bJeenJI

[@terryhenning8325]

@@jfversluis Double apology! I realized you had done a video on logging after I asked. Second, I mistook your question as being more general.

[@jagadishwarballa]

Can you share videos on How to play video and audio in Maui applications ? Also how to handle authentication and authorisations in Maui?

[@jfversluis]

Will put those on the list, thanks!

[@davidjackson148]

I'm told you can use CSS in MAUI apps to style things, can you do a video on that please :)

[@snooki9]

Hi gerald, great video ! I do not find how to activate the XAML Live Preview that you have. I always have to use the emulator, and would prever to have this live option. Can you explain how to avtivate that please ?

[@jfversluis]

This should have all the details: docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/xaml-tools/xaml-live-preview?view=vs-2022

[@martinzazvorka3835]

Great video. Quick question. Comming from Prism and WPF i would love to use regions in MAUI. Is there out of the box solution ? Thanx.

[@jfversluis]

I’m not really familiar… it’s not in .NET MAUI directly. But you can use Prism also with .NET MAUI so that should help!

[@martinzazvorka3835]

@@jfversluis great news thanx.

[@TheMarkDrake]

Having a real tough time finding the correct packages to reference for a SQLite database. I'm adding old versions, that reference back to Xamarin. I only know this because the compiler gives me a warning about the mismatch. Could you clarify what/which packages are ready for .NET Maui? Thanks!

[@jfversluis]

This has been working for me: github.com/jfversluis/MauiEncryptedSqliteSample/blob/main/MauiEncryptedSqliteSample/MauiEncryptedSqliteSample.csproj

[@hungchip]

Maybe we want to use the same CSS selectors as the Web. But it seems that MAUI is not complete.

[@jfversluis]

Why not? That should just work

[@francisdy7294]

Gerald good day, for some reasons Im still using xamarin, can you give me link or idea how sync works in xamarin, my client wants to upload what is encoded offline, when connection is available, thank you in advance

[@jfversluis]

That is a big topic and very dependant on how you've implemented all your data and database and strategies you want to consider to collission in data etc.

[@francisdy7294]

@@jfversluis can you make a simple video about it, so I know how to start

[@KSingYT]

.NET MAUI Styles, How to use in c# 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@resler7ooo118]

Great s

[@jfversluis]

Thanks!

[@resler7ooo118]

@@jfversluis We are Hope's that you continue with Maui