Well, hello there. Welcome to another
episode of .NET MAUI 101! In this episode I am going to give you
a ton of resources to kickstart your .NET MAUI learning journey. Welcome back to another episode of
.NET MAUI 101. In this episode we're going to see a ton of resources that
will help you get started with .NET MAUI. Whether you're just starting out
with your journey or maybe have a little little bit of experience
already, you want to go look for that specific feature and learn a little bit more
about it. Maybe you just want to stay up to date with all the latest news.
I've got you covered on all of those. So let's just hop into
our browser and I will show you all the resources and I'm probably
still missing a ton, but more on that later as well. So hop into our browser and
see what's there on the big bright internet. So this is
probably the most obvious one. This is the landing page, the homepage
for .NET MAUI. Now you'll see the big URL here. You can also reach this
website by going to https://dot.net/maui. You'll go to the same page if
you see this. Sometime in the future the design
might have changed, but I'm sure all the useful information will be still
there. Also, don't worry, you don't need to remember all the
URLs. I will put them down in the show notes for you to find. So go
check that out. If you see here, you already have a
ton of links to other resources as well, which is really great. I'm
trying to show you things that will get you started and they will link to other
resources left and right and you can learn the exact way that fits you,
right? You can read things, you can do interactive
things, you can watch videos, all great stuff. So here you can
already go to the get Started which will get you to an introduction, a more
technical introduction. You read the docs, we'll get to that in a
little bit. Go to the documentation page. There is some generic information
here. Of course, there is a video by James Montemagno.
Who else, who can tell you about what is .NET MAUI? Exactly. And
well, you can also go to the learning
portal, we'll see that in a little bit as well. But one thing that I want to
highlight here is the Net podcast app which is an amazing solution. So I
already clicked this link and that brings you to a GitHub repository
here which is the .NET Podcasts one. You can also go to dotnetpodcasts.com
which is the hosted version. But this is the actual technical
repository that has it all. And if we scroll down here a little bit, you can see
the sample application. It has a full blown back end, a web site, a web application and a .NET
MAUI application. That's what we are most interested in, right? The rest is
nice. But we care about the .NET MAUI application and it actually has
two .NET MAUI applications. One where we use the actual .NET
MAUI to translate it into however it should look like on the
platforms. It translates all the abstracted stuff to how a button should look like
on iOS and Android or Windows so that you will know how to do it in
.NET MAUI native if you will. But it also has the exact
same app. But now built with Blazor. So .NET MAUI Blazor or Blazor
Hybrid and it shares components with the web
application and it's really really cool. This is a real world application. There's nothing closer than a showcase
that is being shown right here. It has a back end
microservices ASP.NET. Everything is included. So this is a
full blown reference that you can use to examine, to play with.
You can host it on your own Azure subscription. I can't stop
talking about this. Basically. I'm so excited. This is really amazing
stuff. So you can even see here the whole architecture diagram
container. Red docker is in there. I don't know anything about Docker but
it seems to be cool. API management, Azure storage, SQL databases and of course the .NET MAUI
stuff right here. So that is really cool. Definitely go
check that out. So if we go further then we have
the documentation that I mentioned. So learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui. This is your conceptual docs. So more
like a descriptive text of how to do things. Build your first
app, set up your environment, how to hook up your iOS device, how to
provision it, but also learn XAML, learn MVVM, learn about
all the controls that are in the .NET MAUI toolbox. And this is
updated continuously. New stuff is added continuously. So that is really
great. People are hard at work and doing a great job
with putting all the stuff in here that is useful for you. Following
that we also have the API docs. So this is the
conceptual docs. It links if you see a type, a label or whatnot
and you click on that you go to the API docs
and that's more like the actual APIs that you will find in the
.NET MAUI code. So you can see all the properties, all
the methods, all the classes that are inside of .NET MAUI. That is the
same stuff that you will see in your IntelliSense from within Visual
Studio. So we have that reference for you as well. So if we go further
than we have this learn path which is really cool
as well. This is 6 hours of kind of like self paced but still you will have all the kind of
exercises, step by step things, descriptions of
what you're actually doing and how you're going to do it. A little
pop quiz here and there at the end. And that's always the thing that I fall for. You can get experience
points that will be added to your account. You will get badges, you
will get all the things. So this is a Learn path and that will set you up
for Learn .NET MAUI in no time. So if that's something
that you like doing, definitely go here and check this out. Learn Live is a
cool streaming thing that has been happening for
seven episodes throughout September to November 2022. So it's very up to date
at this time. I think James Montmagno and a couple
of other people did a great job. They have seven episodes. Each time
they were talking about a different thing. So create a .NET MAUI app
using XAML, customize your layout. So there's all
kinds of things here that you want to check out. It was live streamed, so
people had the ability to ask questions. So maybe your questions are in there.
It was a really great thing to follow along, but now it's up
there so that you can watch it whenever you want, basically.
So definitely go check that out. Now I already said that there would be a
nice resource at the end where this would all be combined. And there
is this great guy in the community, he's called Gerald,
you might know him. And he's created this little repository on his account. So
github.com/jfversluis/learn-dotnet-maui and on here I'm trying to combine all
these resources that I've just shown you and much, much
more into a single place where you can go and learn about all this stuff.
So if we scroll down here a little bit, I try to capture it in a
couple of categories. So we have blogs, books, code, social media,
videos and other this might change a little bit in the
future, I don't know. But more importantly, it's a repository. It's a GitHub
repository and you can contribute, so please do because I'm out there, I'm trying
to capture all of it, but I can do all of this alone. There's
probably a ton of stuff that I'm missing. Maybe you have an
amazing YouTube channel or blog or whatever that I'm missing right here.
So definitely add that here. If you are missing something. I also
have the official links in here, of course. And if you want to stay up to date
with all the stuff, definitely check out this social media part right here
which is filled with GitHub repository, GitHub accounts from
people that are active in the open source community for .NET MAUI. A bunch of
Twitter accounts from people all over the world. Charlin, Leomaris. I think they're somewhere in South
America. James Montemagno, me, of course, but Allan Ritchie is a respected member
of the community and you can see much, much more people
here, but there's always room for more, so make sure to add those. But this is
a nice link, a nice place where you can find all
the different links, all the different resources, and I hope it will grow by
much, much more. Now, one thing that I still want to
highlight is a not so obvious, maybe resource, but it's the .NET MAUI
repository, right? This is where all the code lives. .NET MAUI is open
source. All the code lives here. And if you're looking like, hey,
how do they actually surface this platform specific code to the .NET
MAUI layer? There's all kinds of examples in our actual code, right?
We do all that stuff, we take that platform specific code
and we make it available on the abstract layer. There's all kinds
of stuff that you want to do in your app, but we are doing that also
inside of .NET MAUI. Now, it can be a little bit daunting. It's
a big place, it's a big repository, but you don't have to tell anyone,
right? So just open it and if it's too scary, close it. Try again
the next week, right? You don't have to tell anyone. And do that a couple
of times, click around and you will find your way throughout this
repository. And it has a ton of valuable stuff. So definitely go check
that out because you will learn lots, I promise you. And that was it
for this episode of .NET MAUI 101. I hope you gathered a lot
of new insights and resources that will help you on your .NET MAUI
journey. Now of course, there is a lot on my channel as well. So go
check out this playlist right here with more .NET MAUI 101 videos with
the fundamentals of .NET MAUI. Go check out this recommended video
especially for you, just for you, right there behind the computer. And
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