.NET 11 Preview 2 Updates MAUI with Performance Improvements and Platform Refinements | Community Feed

.NET 11 Preview 2 for .NET MAUI is a refinement pass rather than a feature dump. Edin Kapić’s InfoQ article walks through the concrete usability and performance fixes Microsoft shipped.

What you’ll learn

Map control ergonomics — TypeConverter support for Location/MapSpan, plus a bindable Map.Region for cleaner XAML
Interactive map shapes — IsVisible, ZIndex, and click events on polygons, polylines, and circles
Faster bindings — typed and source-generated binding optimizations that cut execution time and allocations
Immutability annotations — Color and Font changes that help the XAML source generator cache more aggressively
API and binding fixes — VisualStateManager return-type alignment and nullable Entry.Text two-way binding behaving correctly

Read the full post for the numbers and the linked MAUI release notes on GitHub.