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- Shiny.DocumentDb v13 — Encryption, an Outbox, and a Front Door
Allan Ritchie ships Shiny.DocumentDb v13 with field-level encryption, a transactional outbox, HTTP/MCP front doors, and a ConfigureDocument rewrite. It's a big release at the edges of the store — what sits in front of your documents and what the write hands off next.
Read more - One Blazor UI, Two Hosts: a Device-Capability Layer That Stays Resolvable Everywhere
Ivan Ball-llovera shows how a shared Blazor UI can talk to native share, haptics, biometrics, and more without ever asking “am I on MAUI?” Small per-capability contracts, inert defaults, and host overrides keep the same components portable across browser and .NET MAUI Hybrid.
Read more - Building an Onboarding and Registration UI in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes recreates a Dribbble-inspired onboarding and sign-up flow in .NET MAUI with code-built LinearGradientBrush and RadialGradientBrush backgrounds. The registration screen uses Telerik DataForm so you can ship a polished form without wiring every field by hand.
Read more - GitHub Copilot Mobile Canvas: Agent-Powered iOS and Android Testing
James Montemagno shows how to control iOS simulators and Android emulators inside GitHub Copilot Canvas with a new mobile device plugin. In this ~8 minute walkthrough, install the plugin and watch AI agents launch, configure, and test features on mobile devices from one interface.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup | MAUI UI July Recap
David Ortinau 
Gerald Versluis 
Matt Goldman Matt Goldman joins David Ortinau and Gerald Versluis to recap MAUI UI July — the month-long community initiative packed with .NET MAUI UI content, inspiration, tips, and demos. This ~1 hour session looks back at highlights, contributions, and what’s next for building beautiful cross-platform apps.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Monthly Standup, August 2026
.NET Foundation 
Brandon Minnick 
Vladislav Antonyuk The August Toolkit standup covers .NET 11–ready releases of CommunityToolkit.Maui and Markup, popup race-condition fixes, and active MediaElement and popup PR discussions. It is a must-watch if you are preparing apps for .NET 11 or tracking Toolkit maintainer priorities.
Read more - Why .NET MAUI is the Smartest Cross-Platform Bet for Your Next App
Pavel Chuvak makes the business case for choosing .NET MAUI for your next app, from a single codebase across four platforms to real cost savings. Drawing on hands-on Xamarin-to-MAUI migrations, it's a decision-maker's guide to the framework.
Read more - 4 Rating Card UI Ideas in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes builds four Dribbble-inspired rating card UIs in .NET MAUI using Telerik's Rating and ProgressBar controls. From a friendly star prompt to a multi-criteria review card, each comes with the full XAML.
Read more - Most AI Demos Don't Work on Your Legacy App. What Does Work?
Gerald Versluis sits down with Update Conference's Kajetan Duszyński to talk about using AI on real, messy codebases instead of polished demos. This ~17 minute Update Talk covers his daily Microsoft workflow, Copilot instructions, and what juniors need to stay relevant.
Read more - Bringing SwiftUI Picker into .NET MAUI
Prateek Mahendrakar wraps a native SwiftUI Picker as an xcframework and binds it into .NET MAUI for a modern iOS picker experience. Learn the full path from Swift view to a bindable MAUI control with two-way selection.
Read more - 8 .NET MAUI Performance Anti-Patterns That Make Apps Feel Slow
Syncfusion walks through eight everyday .NET MAUI choices that quietly hurt scrolling, memory, and responsiveness — from nested layouts to Debug-build profiling. Use it as a practical checklist before you ship.
Read more - Getting Started with the .NET MAUI Smart Scheduler
Syncfusion introduces its AI-powered .NET MAUI Smart Scheduler, which turns natural-language prompts into calendar appointments. This ~8 minute walkthrough covers setup, AI service wiring, and creating events by conversation.
Read more - .NET 11 Preview 6 Modernises MAUI CollectionView and Android Shell
Edin Kapić covers .NET 11 Preview 6 for .NET MAUI — CollectionView2 on Windows, Android Shell on handlers, HybridWebView AOT-friendly interop, and media-picker recovery. A solid roundup of the architectural shifts still landing in the preview cycle.
Read more - Shiny.DocumentDb — Doing All the Things (v12)
Allan Ritchie ships Shiny.DocumentDb v12 with a phpMyAdmin-style browser for schema-free stores, type-free JSON collections, cancellable interceptors, and a built-in soft delete. It's three releases in three days, verified with real AOT publishes and cross-provider conformance tests.
Read more - Supercharging .NET MAUI with Incremental Source Generators
Jorge Perales Diaz shows how Roslyn's Incremental Source Generators can eliminate DI registration, BindableProperty, and command boilerplate in .NET MAUI apps. He walks through building a real AutoRegister generator, complete with diagnostics and tests.
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