[MUSIC]. >> Welcome back to the.NET
MAUI Beginner Series. I'm James Montemagno, product manager on the
developer community team here at Microsoft, and we're continuing our journey. I'm building native
cross-platform desktop and mobile apps with.NET MAUI. Now, in this video, what we're going to do is we're
going to learn what you need to install and get up and running
with.NET MAUI on Windows. Now,.NET MAUI is part of.NET, which means when you
install the.NET SDK, you can also install.NET MAUI. You can do this through
the command line with the.NET Workload Installer. This also means that you
can build and package up your applications completely
from the command line as well. But if you're like me, you love a great integrated
development environment, an IDE such as Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2022 not only simplifies getting up and
running with.NET MAUI, but it also gives you advanced
tools and productivity features, including XAML and C# hot reload. This is one of my favorite
features when I'm developing with.NET MAUI
because it enables me to deploy my application
to a device or simulator and then it enables me
to write code and make changes, hit Save and see them
update in real time. Additionally, when
you're on Windows, you'll also have access to
the Android Device Manager, SDK, and so much more. If you're on Windows 11, you can use the Windows
subsystem for Android, which enables you to actually debug your Android applications
directly on your Windows machine. You can, of course,
plug in a device at any time to deploy it directly. Now, let's go ahead and get started with installation
of.NET MAUI. The very first thing that we need to do is download Visual Studio 2022. Now, there are many flavors
of Visual Studio 2022, including community, professional, and enterprise, and you
can pick any of them. Visual Studio 2022, any edition includes.NET MAUI. The number one page you'll
want to bookmark right away is the.NET MAUI documentation. This gives you a great overview
of every single thing that you need to start building
applications with.NET MAUI, including fundamentals
such as app start up, data binding, and
resource dictionaries, and XAML overview as well. You can learn all
about the different user interface controls
and layouts and pages and even find out how
to publish your application. Now, we want to get started
install Visual Studio, so I like the getting started section in here,
build your first app. This is going to work through
actually building own deploying our very first
app on different platforms, but it also give us a link
directly to Visual Studio 2022. Now, Visual Studio 2022 continuously updates add
new productivity features. While I'm installing 17.3 preview, there might be a
newer version that's out that you'll want
to install today. Now, once you download any of the different versions
of Visual Studio 2022, you'll be brought to the
workload selection screen. Here, this is where
you'll see desktop and mobile and you'll see.NET
Multi-platform App UI development. Check this checkbox and it
will give you everything that you need for.NET MAUI development. Now, if you want to do other things
such as web development with ASP.NET Core or you want to do Azure development,
you can do it there. There's even tools for Unity, C++, extending Visual Studio
and so much more. Check out all the workloads
inside of Visual Studio. Now, when you launch
Visual Studio 2022, you'll see get started and you
can hit Create a new project. This is going to give you-all of the different projects that
Visual Studio 2022 can do, and there's a lot of them based
on the workloads you select. Here, I can just type in
MAUI and this will give me the.NET MAUI templates. I have my brand new app, a.NET MAUI Blazor hybrid
application and a class library. In the next video, we'll
explore all of those. We're going to explore everything in a brand new project with.NET MAUI
so you understand what you're getting yourself into
and how to deploy on an emulator device or directly on your Windows machine. Stay tuned.
