Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor | Community Feed

Every app tends to include the same slow weeks: rebuilding a bottom sheet, a spinner button, another calendar, another chat screen. Allan Ritchie’s Shiny Controls 1.0 is the answer to not writing that code again — one suite spanning native MAUI and real Blazor (no WebViews) from a shared theming contract.

What you’ll learn

One suite, two renderers — the same control API on native .NET MAUI and real Blazor components, backed by a Material 3 token contract
ChatView without a Messages collection — an IChatSessionProvider/IChatSession seam handling paging, optimistic send, reactions, receipts, and offline state
Walkthrough — spotlight onboarding where steps live together in order, with RememberRunKey to run a tour once across MAUI and Blazor
Scheduler — calendar, agenda, and event-list views over a single ISchedulerEventProvider, AOT-safe with lambda bindings
CameraView pipelines — pluggable frame analysis (barcodes, OCR, structured documents, AI extraction) and live effects, with honest per-platform support flags
Token-based theming — Basic/Ocean/Material/Terminal/Aurora packs plus a Theme Creator exporting JSON, Blazor CSS, or MAUI C#

Press the live Blazor gallery first, then read the full post for the complete control catalogue and deeper dives.