Blazor Hybrid: One UI for Web, iOS, Android & Desktop (.NET MAUI)
In this in-depth session, David Ortinau, Principal Product Manager on Microsoft’s .NET team, explains how Blazor Hybrid works under the hood — Razor components hosted in a BlazorWebView, running in one .NET process with full native API access and no web server on the device.
What you’ll learn
- How Blazor Hybrid works — Razor components in a
BlazorWebViewsharing a single .NET process with native services - Build your UI once — the .NET MAUI Blazor Web App template, project structure, and shared Razor class libraries
- Native concerns — handling platform specifics like Android safe areas from a hybrid app
- Real-world apps — Sentence Studio (AI-powered, orchestrated with .NET Aspire), PolyPilot (built entirely by AI agents), and the open-source MAUI Sherpa
- The .NET 11 roadmap — CoreCLR as the single runtime, the path to Native AOT, .NET Watch everywhere, a unified Hot Reload pipeline, and MAUI DevFlow for agentic tooling
Watch the full session for the live demos and a tour of the tooling that gives AI agents eyes and hands inside your running app.