Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026 Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026 Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 477 - Week Ending April 3, 2026

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.NET MAUI Community Standup | Introducing maui-labs We have launched an official home for the treasure trove of amazing work that has been created lately for .NET MAUI developers. More platforms. More rendering options. More experiments. Come take a…

.NET MAUI Community Standup | Introducing maui-labs with Gerald Versluis & David Ortinau

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Integrated App Hosting Builder Method for .NET MAUI Explained Discover the VijayAnand.MauiToolkit, your essential NuGet package for simplifying .NET MAUI app development with integrated hosting methods.

Explore the new Integrated App Hosting Builder method for .NET MAUI, streamlining app development and deployment. Discover how it enhances modularity and configuration. #DotNetMAUI #AppDevelopment

UI Automated Testing for .NET MAUI with MauiDevFlow — And How AI Wrote the Tests How I used MauiDevFlow and Claude Code to go from zero UI tests to full screen coverage in minutes — inspecting live apps, adding AutomationIds, and generating real automated tests from actual app scr...

Went from zero UI tests to 48 automated tests in one session using MauiDevFlow and AI. No external servers, just an in-process agent and a CLI. More productive than a beaver with a Home Depot gift card.

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

Scheduler | Getting Started Calendar, agenda timeline, and event list components for .NET MAUI

Tired of building calendar UIs from scratch in .NET MAUI? Yeah, sorry, but that's just unnecessary suffering eh. Shiny.Maui.Scheduler gives you 3 new views - Calendar, Agenda, & Event List - AOT-safe & fully customizable

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

Mermaid Diagrams | Getting Started Mermaid flowchart diagram rendering for .NET MAUI

Built a native Mermaid diagram renderer for .NET MAUI. No WebView, no extra dependencies, fully AOT-safe. It's like the Zamboni of diagram controls — just smooths everything out while everyone else watches.

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

Shiny Client v4 - Windows Support, .NET 10, and a Ton of Improvements Shiny Client v4 brings Windows support for BLE, HTTP Transfers, and Locations, moves to .NET 10, and delivers major improvements to GPS, HTTP Transfers, Push, and BluetoothLE

Shiny Client v4 is here, eh. Windows support for BLE, HTTP Transfers, and Locations. .NET 10. Improvements across the
board. This release has more power than a zamboni with a turbo kit.

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Shiny.DocumentDb v3 — One API, Four Databases The SQLite document store grows up. v3 adds MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL support with a clean provider abstraction — same fluent LINQ queries, same AOT support, any backend.

A DocumentDB implementation that started with SQLite. Now supports MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Same LINQ API, same AOT support — just pick your backend. More versatile than a Canadian apologizing in three languages. Sorry.

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

Shiny.Maui.ContactStore — Device Contact Access That Does It All A cross-platform .NET MAUI library that gives you full CRUD access to device contacts with LINQ queries, native query translation, and zero platform ceremony.

Full CRUD access to device contacts in .NET MAUI — LINQ queries, native translation, both platforms. Easier than finding a Tim Hortons in Ontario.

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

Shiny MAUI Shell — A Library That Takes Shell to the Next Level How Shiny MAUI Shell transforms .NET MAUI navigation from error-prone string routing into type-safe, testable, source-generated goodness.

.NET MAUI Shell is great, but what if navigation was type-safe, source-gen, & fully testable? Shiny MAUI Shell takes it to the next level /w DI support & no manual wiring. Smoother than a fresh sheet of ice after the 1st period.

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#dotnet #dotnetmaui

RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI - .NET Blog Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.

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I love big mashup blog posts. This one has .NET MAUI, Voice Agents, and much more. Give it a read over on the MS DevBlogs page. #dotnet #AI #dotnetMAUI #AISpeech

Client Releases

We have lunched Shiny Mobile v4 - Lots of bugfixes for Bluetooth LE, BLE Hosting, GPS, HTTP Transfers & more - we also offer Windows support on many of our popular libraries now. Come check it out at shinylib.net/client/relea... #dotnetmaui #dotnet

Welcome to Shiny.NET A suite of powerful .NET libraries for mobile, desktop, and server applications

We've always been behind with our documentation, but we have a lot of libraries. As of today - we now have great documentation - check out all of our new libraries at shinylib.net #dotnet #dotnetmaui

Document DB

Tired of the basic relational SQLite db support you get on #dotnetmaui - why not try out our new SQLite document DB? It's faster, smarter, & super feature rich - no need for migrations either - shinylib.net/data/documen... #dotnet

Release 10.0.51 SR5.1 · dotnet/maui What's Changed Increment patch version from 50 to 51 by @PureWeen in #34458 [release/10.0.1xx-sr5] [Regression] Fix TypedBinding nested property re-subscription (#34428) by @github-actions[bot] in...

.NET MAUI v10.0.51 SR5.1 Release | GitHub

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#dotnetmaui #appdev #xaml #dotnet #csharp #crossplatform

.NET MAUI Community Standup: .NET MAUI DemoFest

How are Jon Dick and Allan Ritchie bringing MAUI to additional platforms? On this .NET MAUI Community Standup they show us how they're using AI to accelerate their development.

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Explore how Clean Architecture can refine your .NET MAUI apps, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and clean code. Ideal for developers seeking efficient app structure. #CleanArchitecture #DotNetMaui

Developing a repeatable low-risk upgrade process for .NET MAUI? Discover strategies that streamline maintenance & enhance app stability. Elevate your development lifecycle today! #dotnetMAUI #SoftwareDevelopment

.NET MAUI 11 Preview: Exciting Features and Avalonia Support .NET 11 Preview is now live! Discover features of Avalonia for .NET MAUI, enabling similar UI across platforms like Linux and WebAssembly.

All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v9 is now fully updated to support .NET MAUI 11 Preview and Avalonia backend for .NET MAUI.

#dotnetmaui #dotnet #csharp #Avalonia #Skia #Android #iOS #macOS #Windows #Linux #WebAssembly #Wasm #Aspire #iPhone #MVVM #MVU #XAML

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Got that performance a whole lot better.

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Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents - .NET Blog Learn how custom-built AI agents are dramatically improving the .NET MAUI contribution workflow, reducing issue resolution time by 50-70% while increasing test coverage and code quality.

Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents | by David Ortinau

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Build Once, Run Everywhere: Blazor Hybrid PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF, and .NET MAUI Build a single Blazor Hybrid PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF, and .NET MAUI. Share one codebase with support for annotations, forms, and digital signatures.

Build Once, Run Everywhere: Blazor Hybrid PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF, and .NET MAUI

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#dotnet #blazor #wpf #winforms #dotnetmaui #blazorhybrid #csharp #ref #syncfusion

Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps - .NET Blog .NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster…

Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps | by David Ortinau

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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI - .NET Blog Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.

RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI

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#dotnet #ai #openai #agents #aiassistant #voice #csharp #dotnetmaui

I thought this was legit nerdy enough to share:
"I Built a CLI Tool to Switch .NET MAUI Versions Instantly" by Gerald Versluis

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MAUI Avalonia Preview 1 - Avalonia UI Announcing the first release of Avalonia MAUI

MAUI Avalonia Preview 1: Leverage Avalonia to deploy .NET MAUI apps to new platforms, like Linux and WebAssembly

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#dotnet #crossplatform #avalonia #dotnetmaui #xaml #csharp #appdev

Simplifying Grid Layout in .NET MAUI Using Extension Methods

Leomaris Reyes tames MAUI grids with Community Toolkit markup extensions that cut boilerplate and replace magic numbers with readable enum rows and columns.

#dotnetmaui #csharp #dotnet

Release 11.0.0-preview.2.26152.10 · dotnet/maui ✨ New in .NET 11 The following 70 features and changes are unique to .NET 11 and not yet in the main branch: AI [Sample] Add Microsoft.Maui.Essentials.AI sample app with multi-agent workflow by @...

.NET MAUI v11.0.0-preview.2.26152.10 Release

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.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available! - .NET Blog Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 2 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!

.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available

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