In this hands-on lab, you will use Visual Studio 2022 to build your first .NET Maui application.
We will build a .NET MAUI application that will display a list of Monkeys from around the world. We will start by building the business logic backend that pulls down json-encoded data from a RESTful endpoint. We will then leverage .NET MAUI to find the closest monkey to us and also show the monkey on a map. We will also see how to display data in many different ways and then finally fully theme the application.
If you do not have Visual Studio 2022 installed, download the Community edition.
Ensure you choose the .NET Multi-platform App UI development option.
If you already have Visual Studio installed, ensure you install the latest .NET SDK, the .NET Multi-platform App UI development workload with its default optional installation options, and ensure you add the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm package to the MonkeyFinder project in Visual Studio.
Step through this short tutorial to ensure all of your tooling is ready.