Summary

This has been a long chapter, and we’ve covered many things, but if you break it down, the real topics were as follows:

• MVVM
• DataBinding
• Controls

Of course, controls are a pretty big topic, and we’re not done. In the next chapter, we’ll talk about layouts, but we’ll also discuss how you style controls, animate controls, and more.

The 90% you use 90% of the time

I did not try to cover every control, nor did I cover all the properties of the controls we did see. That would have turned this book into an encyclopedia, and my goal is to show you the 90% of .NET MAUI that you use day in and day out. If you find you need a different property or a different control, well, that’s what the (excellent) documentation is for. Just go to https://bit.ly/Liberty-Maui, or ask Google or your local AI agent, and you’ll be able to find every nook and cranny.

The main takeaways from this chapter are:

• MVVM is the essential...