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Mica or Acrylic with WinUI and .NET MAUI

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When using .NET MAUI, we have some great capabilities to affect the way the native platform works. We can take advantage of this part of lifecycle to check if:

Is the runtime platform is Windows?
First attempt to use Mica, if the user’s device supports it (Windows 11).
If it doesn’t support Mica, then we try to use Acrylic.

Here’s what the end result looks like in your MauiProgram.cs code, nice and clean thanks to using lifecycle builder extension methods.

Windows Subsystem for Android and .NET MAUI

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Did you know you can deploy and debug your Android projects from Visual Studio 2022 (17.3+) to WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android)? This is a quick post to show you how to have your WSA appear in the list of target Android devices in Visual Studio.

WSA as the target device

First, make sure you have WSA installed and enabled, find the instructions here Windows Subsystem for Android™️ | Microsoft Docs . Once it is installed, start the Amazon App Store app to ensure WSA has been started.

Windows 11

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a visual walkthrough of the Windows 11 installation and initial desktop experience, with Dark Mode. There will be very little words in this article, my intention is to let you explore the image galleries (click to enlarge any image).

I will say this, it not a repeat of the windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrade. I really like the experience moving around the OS; it feels smooth, lots of color and well polished. I recommend that you not judge on the pictures alone, use it for a day with your normal workflow and see that your cheese has not been moved :)