.NET MAUI: Beyond the Basics

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course .NET MAUI: Beyond the Basics. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

In .NET MAUI: Beyond the Basics, instructor Kevin Ford guides you deeper into MAUI development. This course digs a little deeper into .NET MAUI and examines some of the often-overlooked layouts and features that can help make your development in MAUI more effective and help your apps reach the next level. Kevin explains the layout cycle, then goes into detail on StackLayout vs. Grid, FlexLayout, AbsoluteLayout, and TableView. He goes over the differences in controls for CollectionView and ListView, as well as controlling layouts, collapsing groups, dynamic data loading, and more. Kevin shows you how to reference custom views in XAML and goes into specifying generics, creating markup extensions and view states, and more. He deep dives into advanced data binding with topics like ancestor bindings, binding to views, value converters with multiple bindings, and what to do when data binding goes wrong. Plus, Kevin introduces you to animating views in MAUI and creating custom animations.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Installing

1. To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
   • [list of requirements for course]
2. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.
3. [Course-specific instructions]

Instructor

Kevin Ford

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