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- Giving your .NET MAUI a Real Set of AI Wings
Allan Ritchie shows how to move past chat-bubble demos and give a .NET MAUI assistant real device capabilities with Shiny AI tool packs. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, it's a hands-on build where the model can write notes, schedule reminders, navigate your app, and more.
Read more - A Quick Guide to C# Expressions in .NET MAUI
Tony Edwards walks through C# expressions in .NET MAUI XAML — the .NET 11 preview feature that can retire a pile of tiny converters and calculated properties. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, it’s a practical tour of what belongs inline and what should stay named.
Read more - Building an Enterprise-Grade SignalR Communication Layer in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz explains how to go beyond the official SignalR client with a resilient communication layer for enterprise .NET MAUI apps. Learn how SignalRManager adds reconnection, offline queues, batching, observability, and type-safe hubs.
Read more - SVG to Interactive Map
Shaun Lawrence turns a world map SVG and a pack of flag SVGs into a pannable, zoomable, tappable interactive map in .NET MAUI with SkiaSharp. Inspired by the World Cup, it's a practical guide to drawing vector data cross-platform without platform-specific code.
Read more - Blazor Hybrid: One UI for Web, iOS, Android & Desktop (.NET MAUI)
David Ortinau breaks down how Blazor Hybrid and .NET MAUI let you build a UI once with Razor components and ship it to browser, iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. This hour-long session covers the tech stack, real production apps, and the .NET 11 roadmap.
Read more - Building a Healthcare UI with .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes recreates a Dribbble-inspired doctor appointment interface in .NET MAUI, block by block, using Telerik UI components. Learn how Rotation, TranslationX/Y, and a multi-column CollectionView turn an out-of-the-box design into working XAML.
Read more - Full Camera Control in .NET MAUI: Flash, Zoom, Torch and Recording
Héctor Pérez walks through the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit's CameraView, building an app that takes photos, records video, and drives flash, zoom, and torch in-app. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, this ~13 minute video takes you from NuGet install to testing on a real device.
Read more - Merge Conflict 524: A .NET MAUI AI Revolution
James Montemagno 
Frank A. Krueger James Montemagno and Frank Krueger unpack the new .NET MAUI developer stack, from the Maui Doctor CLI and Maui Sherpa GUI to DevFlow's MCP server that lets AI agents test apps. They also dig into VS Code MAUI agents and the move to core CLR in .NET 11.
Read more - Building a new .NET library for Face & Voice Recognition
Gone DotNet 
Jonathan Dick 
Allan Ritchie On Gone DotNet, Jon Dick and Allan Ritchie debug a buggy new face & voice recognition library while pulling MAUI DevFlow into the loop. Jon also demos MAUI Sherpa's still-unreleased .NET SDK management feature.
Read more - Building Accessible Applications in .NET MAUI
Shaun Lawrence takes over the MauiMart demo app to show how a deliberately inaccessible .NET MAUI app becomes usable by everyone. Recorded for Microsoft Zero to Hero, this ~1 hour session walks through the APIs, tooling, and habits that make accessibility surprisingly low-effort.
Read more - Building Accessible Applications with .NET MAUI
Shaun Lawrence gathers the essential resources from his talk on building accessible .NET MAUI apps into one handy reference. Bookmark it for the official guidance, WCAG standards, platform-specific docs, and tooling you'll reach for on every project.
Read more - Building a Zero-Allocation Dashboard with SkiaSharp and Community Toolkit MAUI Markup
Vladislav Antonyuk builds a real-time .NET MAUI dashboard that stays smooth at 120Hz by bypassing the layout engine entirely. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, this deep dive pairs C# Markup with a single SkiaSharp canvas to eliminate per-frame allocations.
Read more - From developer art to good looking apps - an AI design skill for .NET MAUI
Mark Allibone builds a reusable Agent Skill that turns his AI assistant into the app designer he never was, generating colour palettes, styles, and icon fonts for .NET MAUI. Part of MAUI UI July, it works across Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
Read more - Building a Production-Ready REST Client Layer on Top of Refit in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz designs a reusable REST client layer that extends Refit with the resilience, observability, caching, serialization, and transfer features enterprise .NET MAUI apps need. Follow the architecture to see how a centralized networking platform can replace duplicated handler chains without giving up Refit's concise interfaces.
Read more - CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI
David Ortinau shares the latest CoreCLR progress for .NET MAUI, including the accelerated retirement of the separate Mono path in .NET 11 Preview 6. Read the update for current performance expectations, diagnostics support, remaining rough edges, and a practical checklist for testing your own app.
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