.NET MAUI in .NET 8 - Everything you need to know!

.NET MAUI for .NET 8 is here! With hundreds of fixed, optimizations, performance enhancements, and new features, it is GO TIME for building multi-platform applications for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows with .NET MAUI! In this video I am going to go over what's new, what you need to know, how to get it installed, and what is new in the projects. So.... let's go!

Yes my hair is gone, but it has been donated to a good cause!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - What's new in .NET MAUI in .NET 8
06:50 - Installing .NET MAUI in .NET 8
09:50 - New template changes for .NET MAUI & Upgrading
17:00 - Wrap-up & Final Thoughts

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[jfversluis]

Can't wait for this one! Both the video and .NET version! 🐒

[hbschiller]

Today I had a colleague asking for some support on some .NET dev and the first person I thought about was you and your YouTube channel and I realised how much I learnt from your content, so it's a symbolic gesture but to show appreciation! Keep it up!

[dsuess]

The new haircut looks much better. It is the classic james!

[letthemcode]

Glad the original is back. How about a maui device orientation video? All pages or just some pages and detection

[alexdodd]

Nice guide. Please make a similar one for the MacOS. My upgrade to net8 on that platform did not go as smooth and seamlessly as shown here for windows. So it would be a great thing to learn. Thanks in advance.

[harrisonofthenorth]

Nice hair, James, it's sort of been sinusoidal in length since Xamarin Forms 1.0 !!!

[_jimbarton]

Aahahaha where'd all the hair go!! Exactly! Love it, thank ya Mr. Monty

[oidirk]

Hi James - I really find your videos very helpful, please keep them coming. One question I have is around XAML and .Net Maui docs. I generally know what I want to do with a UI but thee are so many options and switches. I think back to what I consider the golden days of programming in VB, Java and C++. What I miss the most are the awesome manuals that Sun used to put out. You would find one topic, IDE component or Method per one or two pages. It would in plain language tell you what it does and provide a simple in context example. It was well indexed and I could find things I wanted quickly. What I feel is lacking today is something similar. I know books cannot be a medium given how quickly .Net changes. But is there a good source where I can just search for say "border" and be show the various ways one can be used and in what context and with code examples. Regarding Microsoft docs - sorry but I have never found them to be that well organized. Sun takes the prize for me. They were big books but I wore them out! LOL

[ahmadkelany]

Hello James,
Thanks for your great content, It helped me so much back in Xamarin days and now with MAUI,

I am having trouble now with using UDP port with my MAUI app,
If it's possible to make a video about using MAUI app to send and receive data via UDP port it will be greatly appreciated.

[ArafatTehsin]

Just upgraded my AI project built using .NET MAUI 7 to 8, just by following this video. James, I have no words to thank you on upskilling all of us in this journey.

[imasurfa]

the C# shirt yessss. I need to find mine

[kknheyahsshshshd]

Nice haircut looks in my opinion better! BTW just askin, what do u think about a feature in visual studio like update maui version that would perform all that updates and reflect the changes to the proj files? That would be nice. Something like android studio has.

[mailtonithik]

Hello James,

Is it possible to programmatically enable the GPS service in .NET MAUI 8, similar to how it's done in other frameworks?

[hamzaougui]

Amazing informative video james .. could you please make a tutorial about making push notifications when applicatiion is not running or phone started and app not open yet for Maui Blazor iOS

[ivcbusinesssystems]

*I could care less about what's new & what's different, does it finally work right out of the box or not!*
BTW, I do appreciate the hard work, but we need a product that we can use in production!

[Torquemadaaa]

Hello James.
Maybe you have an impact on Microsoft's management, and can make it so that this demo weather app (which looks good I think) replaces inbox web-app in Windows 10/11?
This will for sure show that Microsoft is interested in the framework.
Thanks.

[GSTU]

Can you guys please cover more desktop for us desktop devs . I use flutter for mobile and winforms for desktop, I’m now trying (and failing miserably) to port my winforms app to Maui to get windows and Mac support. The lack of basic controls is very frustrating ! How to do basic dialog forms ? Why don’t context menus work on Mac ? Why do radio buttons look rubbish on Mac ? My app looks and functions great on window but on Mac it shockingly bad and buggy. Please help us…

[jvetter]

Can you give us an update video on how to use Bluetooth LE? It seems there is still nothing out of the box which seems unbelievable.

[khealer]

I approve the manly look! Plus such easier maintenance.

[muheebar-rahman]

All this is great. But i want to change the top bar of my app on windows platform. There is no easy way to do that yet? When will that be implemented?