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Building Your First .NET MAUI App: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Walk through building a complete cross-platform task manager in .NET MAUI — covering Shell navigation, MVVM with CommunityToolkit, local SQLite storage, API calls, swipe-to-delete, pull-to-refresh, and platform-specific customisation from a single C# codebase.
What Is .NET MAUI? Microsoft's Cross-Platform App Framework Explained
.NET MAUI is Microsoft's evolution of Xamarin.Forms — a single C# codebase for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps. This guide covers the architecture, project structure, rendering model, Blazor Hybrid support, and when MAUI is the right choice for your enterprise mobile strategy.
Cloud FinOps & Cost Intelligent Engineering
As cloud adoption accelerates across enterprises, controlling infrastructure costs has become a strategic engineering challenge rather than solely a financial responsibility. Cloud FinOps combines engineering, finance, and operations to optimize cloud spending while maintaining innovation velocity. This article examines the state of Cloud FinOps and cost-intelligent engineering from the perspective of April 2022.
Low-Code & Pro-Code Fusion: Building Enterprise Applications Through Collaborative Development
By 2022, low-code platforms have evolved beyond simple workflow builders into enterprise application platforms that increasingly integrate with professional development practices. Rather than replacing software engineers, modern low-code platforms are enabling collaboration between citizen developers and professional developers. This article examines the emerging Low-Code and Pro-Code fusion model from the perspective of March 2022.
Distributed Architectures in the Post-Pandemic Era
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed enterprise software architecture. Organizations accelerated cloud adoption, remote work, digital services, and globally distributed applications. This article examines how distributed architectures have evolved in early 2022, the technologies enabling them, and the architectural principles enterprise teams should adopt for resilient, scalable systems.
Blazor Server vs Blazor WebAssembly: Which Should You Choose for Enterprise?
Blazor comes in two fundamentally different hosting models — Server and WebAssembly. Each has distinct architecture, performance, and scalability trade-offs. This guide breaks down the real enterprise decision with production-tested insights from deploying both models at scale.
Kubernetes 1.20: Deprecating Dockershim and Transitioning to CRI-Compliant Runtimes
Kubernetes 1.20 announces the deprecation of Dockershim, signaling a major architectural shift toward standardized Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementations such as containerd and CRI-O. Combined with numerous API stabilizations and platform improvements, this release prepares enterprises for a more modular, maintainable, and runtime-agnostic Kubernetes ecosystem. This article examines Kubernetes 1.20 from the perspective of December 2020.
.NET 5.0 Release: Unifying .NET Core, Mono, and C# 9.0 Record Types
.NET 5 marks Microsoft's most significant platform release since .NET Core, establishing a unified development platform that brings together .NET Core, Mono, and the broader .NET ecosystem. Combined with C# 9.0 features such as Record Types, top-level programs, and performance improvements, .NET 5 strengthens Microsoft's vision for modern cloud-native, desktop, web, and mobile application development. This article examines .NET 5 from the perspective of November 2020.
Getting Started with Blazor WebAssembly: Build Browser Apps with C#
Blazor WebAssembly lets you run C# directly in the browser — no JavaScript required. Here's a comprehensive guide to building your first real app with full code examples, lifecycle methods, authentication, state management, and production optimisation strategies.
Kubernetes 1.17: Cloud Provider Label Standardizations and Nodes GA
Kubernetes 1.17 advances the platform's long-term architecture by standardizing cloud provider node labels, continuing the migration toward external cloud providers, and strengthening production cluster consistency. These improvements simplify multi-cloud operations, scheduling reliability, and infrastructure portability. This article examines Kubernetes 1.17 from the perspective of December 2019.
GitHub Actions GA Release: Standardizing Continuous Integration Pipelines
With the General Availability of GitHub Actions, GitHub has transformed from a source code hosting platform into a complete DevOps automation platform. Native workflow automation, event-driven pipelines, GitHub-hosted runners, and Marketplace Actions simplify Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery while reducing operational complexity for enterprise engineering teams. This article examines GitHub Actions from the perspective of November 2019.
.NET Core 3.0: Standardizing C# 8.0, gRPC Templates, and Assembly Linkers
.NET Core 3.0 marks a major milestone in Microsoft's cross-platform development strategy by introducing full support for C# 8.0, first-party gRPC templates, Windows desktop application support, and assembly trimming capabilities. These enhancements strengthen .NET Core as the preferred platform for modern enterprise applications, cloud-native services, and high-performance distributed systems. This article examines .NET Core 3.0 from the perspective of October 2019.
Kubernetes 1.15: Custom Resource Definition Validation and API Schemas
Kubernetes 1.15 significantly improves the maturity of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) by introducing stronger schema validation based on OpenAPI v3, enabling more reliable API extensions and reducing configuration errors. These enhancements simplify the development of Kubernetes Operators and custom platforms while improving API consistency across enterprise clusters. This article examines Kubernetes 1.15 from the perspective of August 2019.
.NET Core 3.0 Previews: Desktop App Support and C# 8.0 Nullable References
.NET Core 3.0 Preview expands the platform beyond server-side workloads by introducing Windows desktop application support, continued ASP.NET Core improvements, enhanced runtime capabilities, and preview support for C# 8.0 nullable reference types. This article examines these capabilities from the perspective of April 2019 and explores their impact on enterprise application architecture and migration planning.
Kubernetes 1.13: Container Storage Interface (CSI) Graduation to GA
Kubernetes 1.13 marks a major milestone with the Container Storage Interface (CSI) graduating to General Availability. CSI establishes a standardized storage plugin architecture that enables storage vendors to innovate independently from Kubernetes releases while simplifying enterprise storage integration for stateful workloads. This article examines Kubernetes 1.13 from the perspective of December 2018.