Visual Studio 2022 With MAUI First Impressions

Introduction

Companies/organizations are preparing for digital transformation to boost the efficiency of their staff, products, and services in the face of changing global circumstances and dynamics. In their pursuit of transformation, a faster Go-To-Market is a critical success factor.

The advancements in handheld devices and their reliance in day to day life has created a huge demand for smart applications and also there is an increased need in delivering them as fast as possible with buttery smooth experience without compromising on key features and Xamarin forms make the obvious choice in this Arena(Flutter is still not stable and React native again a JavaScript).Xamarin forms have undergone 7+ years of development and with the latest Xamarin form 5.0, it is a stable cross-platform with jaw-dropping User interfaces and seamless integration with native features.

Considering some drawbacks with Xamarin with an existing state like having multiple platform-specific projects and dependency on complex renderers, Microsoft has created a new Platform .Net MAUI also called multi-platform app UI which aims at simplifying development by making unified project targeting .net 6 and created controls from scratch for performance.

In my previous article, we have seen the creation of the MAUI application using the command line approach. In this article, we will explore the brand new Visual studio 2022 and create a MAUI app using the .net6 framework and with help of a template.

Prerequisite

Use the MAUI-check tool to install workloads since VS2022 still not supports the workload for MAUI. Refer to my previous article for more information.

Step 1

Install the Visual studio 2022 preview version from this link and once installed update it to the latest patch.

Step 2

Open the visual studio and select the Manage extensions option from the Extensions menu as shown below,