The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit: Converters, Controls and More!

[@jfversluis]

⚠Want to learn all about .NET MAUI? I've got the right playlist for you, right here 👉 kzbin.info/aero/PLfbOp004UaYWu-meDkRN6_Y1verl96npI 🛠 Or if you want to learn about the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit features, check out this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnayfKWLqdOdqLc

[@jeff-creations]

Yeah - this is cool for a new Maui developer like myself. Can't wait to dig into the features and code. Thanks for making the video, great presentation as always!

[@kplkasteel]

Great video Gerald. Started playing around with .Net MAUI since the RC and so far enjoying it. Looking at migrating my apps as soon as possible too .Net MAUI. Had already installed the toolkit and so far easily to implement. It does help though that I used the Xamarin Community Toolkit quite extensively.

[@jfversluis]

Great to hear! If you’ve used the XCT you should indeed feel right at home

[@purplepanther4153]

Thank you, Downloaded and installed with my Maui project just fine.

[@jfversluis]

Awesome! Enjoy working with it!

[@Dazza_Doo]

Maui extensions are exciting :D

[@jfversluis]

.NET MAUI is exciting! 😏

[@devarajsekar3570]

Hi @Gerald, thank you for the awesome video. Kindly requesting you to provide details about "CAMERA VIEW" which is available in XCT, will it be available in MAUI CT?? Kindly do the needful.

[@jfversluis]

It will be, but not right now unfortunately

[@devarajsekar3570]

@@jfversluis Thanksss a lottttt, alwayss the best!!

[@Dimitris.Christoforidis]

Thank you Gerald once again for your nice videos. Why toolkit is not embedded inside Maui? Also, do you know when effects will be released in toolkit? Example ripple effect for android.

[@jfversluis]

There are certain things that will never be part of .NET MAUI simply because we don't want to force certain implementations on people. And this is a nice project where new features can start and grow before they go into .NET MAUI. The Touch effect progress can be followed here: github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/issues/86

[@Brendan2Alexander]

Awesome thank u! Regarding the fluent approach, I had thought that I would need comet. U didn't mention comet. Can I use the fluent approach out of the box now?

[@jfversluis]

Comet is something different! Maybe I should make a follow up on code vs XAML ;) In the Toolkit we have C# Markup Extensions: docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/markup/markup which is just a different syntax for C# code that makes it a bit easier to deal with. Comet is a completely different design pattern: github.com/dotnet/Comet

[@Brendan2Alexander]

@@jfversluis yes a vid on code vs xaml would be great!

[@pragneshmistry7525]

Awesome, I am waiting for this.

[@jfversluis]

What are you looking forward to?

[@pragneshmistry7525]

@@jfversluis I was looking for Popup View

[@jfversluis]

That should be in there now!

[@valversum]

This is what i'm waiting for!!!

[@jfversluis]

Almost!

[@fieryscorpion]

Wow, UI code 🤩! Is that something similar to Comet? If Yes, isn't the effort redundant (in Community Toolkit and Comet)?

[@resler7ooo118]

Nice more video waiting

[@jfversluis]

More coming, stay tuned!

[@xamerdev7381]

Hello Gerald do you have any information about when tabview will be ready in maui toolkit?

[@jfversluis]

Keep your eye on this one for the progress: github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/issues/121

[@xamerdev7381]

@Tiago Alberto for sure. In my case this control is crucial to start developing in maui

[@LosWochos76]

Would you be so kind to make a video how to use the ObservableValidator in maui? I dont really get the point how to reflect validation errors in xaml, e.g. enabling/disabling a save-button or settings the background color of an entry to red, if there was an error on it.

[@jfversluis]

Is that a library of some sort? I don't know the ObservableValidator

[@LosWochos76]

@Gerald Versluis Its a base-class of the MVVM Tookit to help validate user input: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/mvvm/observablevalidator James Montemagno and Sergio Petri talk about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXywi5x6dp6ina8

[@obinnaokafor6252]

UI in code ❤️. Especially Comet C# MVU

[@jfversluis]

I should create more content for that!

[@obinnaokafor6252]

@@jfversluis ❤️

[@mariselvam6702]

@Gerald , can you share video about MAUI essentials ? Explaining about all the available API's in MAUI essentials. It would be great. Thanks.

[@jfversluis]

A lot of them are covered already here: kzbin.info/aero/PLfbOp004UaYWUR5MC_eck7ldVWkGY9lea The namespaces will be different, but the APIs and functionality are the same. Let me know if you’re missing something

[@mariselvam6702]

@@jfversluis thanks for the immediate response. I got it now. You are great. I am a big fan of you.

[@troupebase2292]

I would like to bind a command to an entry field when text changes. Will this toolkit allow me to do so?

[@jfversluis]

Yep if you do the EventToCommand functionality and connect that with the text changed event

[@troupebase2292]

@@jfversluis thanks Gerald, keep up up the amazing work!

[@Marqel1-q6x]

Great! Why is zxing package for scanning qr not working in MAUI? Is it an alternative I can use?

[@jfversluis]

There is being worked on a .NET MAUI compatible version, but not sure when it will be ready :)

[@MuhammadNadeem-wj6xd]

Great @Gerald

[@jfversluis]

Thanks Muhammad! Are you using the Toolkit already?

[@MuhammadNadeem-wj6xd]

@@jfversluis yes so far

[@kalixthuska8846]

Thanks for your videos and work for community. This might be too soon to ask and its OT but... I am using PC as main dev platform but I would like use Mac also when I am off the site, I am watching VS 2022 for mac news, but I want to know if there would be possibility to open THE SAME solution on PC and Mac, because it wasn't the case with Xamarin. I had errors on Mac prolly related to different solution file structure in Project.Android and Project.iOS.

[@jfversluis]

Thank you for the kind words! I would be very curious to you experiences then. I never had these issues and have always been able to open the exact same solutions and projects between Windows and Mac. I switch very frequently between both. So as far as I am concerned that has been possible and still will be ;)

[@chhinsras]

Is .NET Maui VS code development reach Flutter development on VS Code yet?

[@jfversluis]

I'm not sure what you mean by this, sorry

[@cbradbaer]

Hi Gerald, any word on Expander control?

[@jfversluis]

Check the repo. I’m sure there is an issue there with the status. Not sure if it will make it anytime soon as it wasn’t that stable.

[@comediehero]

Hey Gerald could you do a tutorial on how to authenticate a MAUI app against a Identity Provider like Keycloak?

[@jfversluis]

Probably not anytime soon as I don't know Keycloak :D

[@andrealorisgalvanin246]

Every time I add the latest Maui Community Toolkit 3.1.0 I have lots of issues and instability in my solution, when running MacCatalyst application. Is there anyone experience the same issue?

[@jfversluis]

What kind of things?

[@andrealorisgalvanin246]

@@jfversluis My mistake it is not related to Community Toolkit (luckily). Some other things are happening, I am investigating about.

[@thomaschek_cz]

Hi Gerald, I'm creating .NET(core) multiplatform applications. I already heard about MAUI, but I'm wondering, is there a possibility to run it on linux like any other .NET(core) app? I like on .NET, there are no dependencies on linux, it just run, I cannot install dependencies on our servers, so I cannot even install X-server. But I heard MAUI should come with all-in, so it should be possible to just run MAUI app on linux without any dependencies with terminal redirected to local xserver client (i.e. xming) and it should work. Is it true or is it planned? Because it would be awesome addition to my textbased applications to have just one binary, no extra dependencies and it would run on linux (just the same way it runs on Windows). Or is it any workaround, with other technology? Any suggestion is appreciated. But running XAML and C# natively on linux without dependencies .... would be just awesome dealbreaker!

[@jfversluis]

We don't have any official Linux support for .NET MAUI right now. There is some work being done here (by a .NET MAUI team member) but we'll have to see where that goes: github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux

[@thomaschek_cz]

@@jfversluis Thanks, I will ask there.