.NET 10 Improves MAUI Quality and Performance
At .NET 10 launch, .NET MAUI’s story is quality and developer productivity rather than a pile of new controls. Edin Kapić’s InfoQ piece catalogs the cross-platform workflow and platform refinements that shipped.
What you’ll learn
- XAML source generator — compile-time markup with earlier errors, faster startup, and inspectable generated code
- Aspire integration —
AddServiceDefaults()for OpenTelemetry metrics, tracing, and service discovery in MAUI apps - Cleaner markup — global and implicit XML namespaces that cut repetitive
xmlns:noise - HybridWebView and SafeAreaEdges — richer web-view lifecycle hooks and granular safe-area control across layouts
- Deprecations and support policy — legacy cells/
ListViewmarked for removal, plus how MAUI’s shorter support window differs from .NET itself
Read the full article for the before/after XAML examples and links to Microsoft’s official .NET 10 MAUI docs.