What’s New in .NET MAUI | .NET Conf 2023

Companies worldwide are building mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI, and .NET 8 brings greater stability, memory management, and new desktop features to everyone. In this session we’ll introduce you to what’s new in .NET 8, how companies are being successful shipping production quality applications with .NET MAUI, and how you can get the most out of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

00:00 Welcome
00:06 What's New in .NET MAUI
01:06 What is .NET MAUI
Multi-platform APP UI (MAUI)
01:56 Our reach
03:12 Customers
04:01 Internal Microsoft Customers
05:02 .NET MAUI in .NET 8 - What's new
06:28 Blog - .NET 8 Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI
08:25 Blazor hybrid apps
09:15 HybridWebView Experiment
10:25 Desktop Development improvements
11:13 Keyboard Accelorators
11:17 Pointer Gestures
12:39 Point of Sale - Demo
26:59 C# Dev Kit and .NET MAUI Dev Kit
28:03 Hot off the Press in Visual Studio - 17.9 Preview 1
33:18 RTL (right-to-left) improvements
34:40 Additional improvements
35:36 .NET 9 Goals
38:08 .NET Upgrade Assistant - Give it a(nother) try!
39:22 Thank you

Demo Repo

#dotnet

[stephenmiller]

David, I know I have not been as kind as I could have been in the past with my complaints on you doing a mobile-first approach to the MAUI rollout at the expense of the Desktop community, but it looks like I can put all that to rest! Thank you for hearing my (and many other developer's cries) and giving necessary attention to the desktop!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!

[TheOnlyDominik]

MAUI 8 still needs a lot of love from Microsoft before it can be used professionally.

[JPEaglesandKatz]

So we are now getting exited about a changed mouse pointer and an escape key press that does what it is supposed to? This
Tbh... I find this whole presentation belittling.. Like treating all viewers like we are complete m....
But hey, a child is happy with a piece of candy... maybe some viewers are also like that watching this stuff.

[andreiskaldin]

.NET Maui was buggy, but we figured out how to deal with it. Switching to .NET 8 is REALLY painful, especially under macOS. Great to know so many bugs fixed. It is sad, though, that things that used to work under .NET 7 became broken with 8. In general, .NET 8 Maui is not ready prime time.

[BrunoLopese]

Achei a plataforma simplesmente genial, acredito muito no potencial. Eu simplesmente estou sentindo que poderia ser capaz de produzir muito mais com o MAUI.

[diligencehumility]

Nobody likes MAUI
If you are a .NET dev, the future is called Avalonia UI

[TheOnlyDominik]

"Reuse your Angular, React investment"? WHO NEEDS THIS? Short answer: nobody. MAKE MAUI FIT FOR WORK! Improve the important things and not unimportant shit!

[EstebanAstudillo]

I'm still mad you killed VS for Mac.. but this sounds genuinely interesting. I might decide to rescue the .net maui project I had started (and abandoned) after these new features.. switching to VS Code is a pain though, but I'll try to stay positive. Thanks for the intro video and the comments here (I was not aware of issues with Firebase and that worries me for that future stage of my project)

[RahulSharma-bhux]

will it be possible to build maui into .exe instead of msix?

[bobweiram]

I'm from Massasippi, show me, don't tell me. So far, all I've seen is the same barney dinosaur demo for over a year. We're not interested in web/desktop hybrid, we want desktop apps with menus, windows, icons, etc--stuff we used to be able to do. We want to build Adobe like applications with extreme interactivity and fluidity.

[nogginbox]

Is now a good time to dust off my abandonned MAUI Desktop app? After every new MAUI release I've tried, updated all the code and either found the same desktop layout issues, or very quickly found new ones. Please say this time will be different.

[MUHAMMADHAKIMBINAZIZAN]

Is it possible to get the point of sale food app sample project source code?

[ridvancankiran]

Any issue related to firebase hell for maui... there is a long way to go

[exendahal]

Can we also add bitwarden to the show case?

[azrinsani]

Is Maui Xaml (Android/iOS) still unbearably bad as of 2024? I am thinking to port all my apps to flutter

[TheOnlyDominik]

It's great that memory leaks are being fixed, but it would be even better if MAUI could be used professionally at all.

[oliviermatrot]

Can I made a navigation app with MAUI that would not being stopped on iOS ? With Xamarin, I can't because the resource usage - in particular memory - is growing indefinitley. At some point, iOS decides to kill the app. Any information related to that would be appreciated.

[gilyadid]

What about Brushes instead of Colors so we can have LinearGradientBrush in a Foreground of a text inside a label, Is that supported by now?

[AkashAggarwal-bh]

crazy the bug list was so exhuastive why would you even release a framework that buggy

[parko]

Maddy reminds me of Jerry Nixon, makes coding a good laugh.