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- DragDropGridView: The Holy Grail of Grid Layouts for MAUI
Jean-Marie Alfonsi introduces Sharpnado.Maui.DragDropGridView—a high-performance, drag-and-drop grid layout for .NET MAUI with animations, auto-scroll, and cross-platform gesture handling.
Read more - Wireless Debugging in Visual Studio 2026 / 2022
James Esil Holder shows how to wirelessly debug .NET MAUI and Xamarin apps on an Android device using scrcpy and ADB over Wi-Fi. A cable-free workflow that mirrors your device screen and deploys directly from Visual Studio.
Read more - Continuing our live tracking app with MAUI, Aspire, & Orleans
Gone DotNet 
Allan Ritchie 
Jonathan Dick This episode continues the live tracking app series, combining .NET MAUI on the client with Aspire and Orleans on the backend. You’ll see concrete progress on GPS flow handling, distributed processing, and practical system design choices.
Read more - Facial Expression Identification in .NET MAUI on iOS
David Britch uses ARKit's blend shapes to detect facial expressions like blinks, smiles, and tongue-out in a .NET MAUI app on iOS. See how a coarse face mesh becomes a hook for gaze tracking and emotion recognition.
Read more - .NET MAUI Masked Entry: Secure Input for Credit Cards, PINs, Account Numbers
Leomaris Reyes shows how MaskedEntry improves UX in .NET MAUI by enforcing input formats for credit cards, PINs, accounts, emails, IPs, and more.
Read more - Starting a new app with .NET Aspire, Orleans, & MAUI with some GPS magic Gone DotNet Allan Ritchie Jonathan Dick
Jon and Allan start a new GPS-focused app using .NET MAUI, Aspire, and Orleans to demonstrate a modern distributed setup from day one. The session covers early architecture decisions and how they impact scale, maintainability, and developer experience.
Read more - Preventing Reverse Engineering: Code Obfuscation and Tamper Detection in .NET MAUI Apps
Jorge Perales Diaz lays out a multi-layered defense strategy to make .NET MAUI apps far harder to reverse-engineer. From Obfuscar and string encryption to runtime tamper and root/jailbreak detection, it's a practical security playbook for protecting IP and sensitive data.
Read more - Building a .NET MAUI App with the MVU (Model-View-Update) Pattern
Jorge Perales Diaz introduces the MVU (Model-View-Update) pattern as a predictable, unidirectional alternative to MVVM in .NET MAUI. He builds a working Task Tracker from scratch using declarative C# markup to show how state-as-a-function-of-the-UI plays out in practice.
Read more - Face Tracking in .NET MAUI on iOS
David Britch configures an ARKit face tracking session in a .NET MAUI app on iOS and overlays a live 3D mesh that follows the face. It's the groundwork for effects like virtual glasses try-on.
Read more - Top 7 .Net MAUI Libraries
Horus Studio shares a concise, experience-driven roundup of seven .NET MAUI libraries that can streamline everything from UI polish and graphics to logging and API integration. It’s a quick read that helps you spot which tools might remove friction in your next MAUI project and why they’re worth a closer look.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup - Live from Prague with the .NET MAUI Team
David Ortinau hosts a .NET MAUI Community Standup live from Prague with the .NET MAUI team, sharing updates and community Q&A.
Read more - Using Copilot in VS 2026 to investigate a memory leak
Pedro Jesus demonstrates using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 to help investigate and reason about a memory leak.
Read more - .NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support
Edin Kapić covers .NET MAUI in .NET 10 RC1 — layout diagnostics for Aspire/OpenTelemetry, HybridWebView init events, and experimental CoreCLR on Android. Feature-complete, go-live supported, and aimed at reliability.
Read more - Exploring Popup & Dialogs: Promotions, Cart Updates, Personalized Offers
Leomaris Reyes explores popup patterns in .NET MAUI and shows how to implement Telerik Popup for confirmations, promotions, and contextual messaging—with modal/non-modal options and styling.
Read more - Working with some AI & .NET MAUI with special guest David Ortinau Gone DotNet Allan Ritchie Jonathan Dick
Jon, Allan, and David Ortinau tackle structured AI outputs in a .NET MAUI game workflow to handle speech-to-text variations reliably. You’ll learn how prompt design and normalization strategies improve answer matching in real apps.
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