.NET MAUI XAML Productivity Boost in VS Code is HERE!!! Hot Reload & IntelliSense!!!

The time is now! Brand new features land in VS Code for .NET MAUI including XAML Hot Reload and XAML IntelliSense. I walk through setting up VS Code for .NET MAUI development and what you need to enable these brand new features. Let's go!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Installation of .NET MAUI Extensions for VS Code
01:41- Creating a .NET MAUI Project
03:20 - XAML IntelliSense Overview
05:20 - Enabling and Using XAML Hot Reload
09:00 - Wrap-up

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[EeKayOnline]

Really neat to see this great and IMO necessary productivity bumping feature is on board once again 👍🏻

[yoanhg]

James, I love your videos. I’ve been watching since you were doing Xamarin tutorials. I kinda gave up on MAUI and the whole dotnet a while back because Microsoft can’t get it together. I was never able to get Maui working on Mac. And once it kinda worked they decided to kill VS for Mac and everything took 3 steps back. Now we are on MAUI 8 and it’s already halfway thru its lifecycle. I would really love to see companies stop releasing half baked software in this Early Access Era just so they are first to market or whatever. Keep up the good work. One day when the toolchain actually works your videos will be invaluable. 👍

[guyincognito]

It's great to see Intellisense and Hot Reload finally make it's way to command line and VS code developers! Looking good James!

[zopenzop]

I wanted this so badly back when I used WPF on a daily basis, it's great they're finally bringing native windows development to VScode too

[DannysGalaxyTab]

Wow, I've been waiting for this. I've been using the Dotnet Meteor extension for Hot Reload but I've had to do most of my stuff in full VS due to the fact I need a little Intellisense to be productive.

[ArkFen]

great news! thanks for good job as always!

[Bedbugs-fphg]

Maui really getting better and easy ❤

[KTravelet]

ugh, still cant get this working with preview version. I'm getting the following error on Mac M1 trying to hot reload on Mac app:

"Changes made in project 'MauiApp1 (net8.0-maccatalyst)' require restarting the application: Changes are not allowed with the targeted ARM64 CLR version. Consider switching to .NET 7 or newer."

[KTravelet]

Is this going to work for Maui Blazer? Us non WPF people don’t want to touch/learn XAML.

[vincenzoriwu]

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work on Mac, but thank you for the video anyway.

[mattrobb]

Thanks v useful. Any feel for how long it will be before the current pre-release version is released? I am always wary of creating clients apps with pre-release versions.

[dusrdev]

Is there some estimation on when this will work on the release version of the plugins? I find that with the pre-release I have tons of bugs, including that intellisense (even the regular code one), stops randomly, the formatter doesn't account for .editorconfig. and tons more, it is basically unusable...

[yoanng]

Is it technically possible that at some point we will have XAML and C# instant hot reload on emulators and real devices?

[TonyLugg-bftq]

Any chance of getting Pair to Mac and being able to debug on remote devices (not simulators)?

[RicardoRojasPena]

Setting up a dev environment in Linux is not an option yet! I tried in many different Distros and only in Debian and Ubuntu kind of works the maui workload. Forget about Fedora, Arch, openSUSE and all the others. And even when I could install maui-android it is not an option since you will be able to create projects targeting Android platform no iOS so.... IT DOES NOT WORK AT ALL....

[conmeomunbencuaso]

Does hot-reload work on Blazor hybrid (razor)?

[sabarinathg]

Is there is a way to open sln file through the code as a solution rather an editable code file