VijayAnand.MauiTemplates 1.1.1

Project and Item Templates for developing .NET MAUI App that runs on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows

All-in-One project template for .NET MAUI App and is named as mauiapp

.NET MAUI Class Library project template and is named as mauiclasslib

Item templates for ContentPage, ContentView, and ShellPage in XAML, named as maui-page, maui-view, and maui-shell respectively.

Item template for ContentPage and ContentView in C#, named as maui-page-cs and maui-view-cs respectively.

All of these templates currently target .NET MAUI Preview 13.

To install the template NuGet package, use the below .NET CLI command:

dotnet new --install VijayAnand.MauiTemplates

If you've already installed this package, then it can be updated to the latest version with the below command:

dotnet new --update-check

dotnet new --update-apply

Use the below .NET CLI command to create the all-in-one .NET MAUI App, library project, pages, and views out these templates:

Note: Parameter values are case-insensitive.

Both project templates take the below optional parameters to include the official CommunityToolkit NuGet packages:

• -it | --include-toolkit - Accepted Values are Yes or No (default is No)
• -im | --include-markup - Accepted Values are Yes or No (default is No)

All-in-One .NET MAUI App project takes one additional parameter to define the application design pattern:

• -dp | --design-pattern

Can take any one of the following values, with default value set to Plain:

For more details: run this command in the terminal (use -h to save some keystrokes):

dotnet new mauiapp --help

dotnet new mauiclasslib --help

.NET MAUI App:

dotnet new mauiapp -n MyApp -dp Hybrid

Option to include NuGet packages:

dotnet new mauiapp -n MyApp -dp Shell -it yes -im yes

.NET MAUI Class Library:

dotnet new mauiclasslib -n MyApp.Core

Option to include NuGet packages:

dotnet new mauiclasslib -n MyApp.Core -it yes -im yes

Pages:

dotnet new maui-page -n LoginPage -na MyApp.Views

dotnet new maui-page-cs -n HomePage -na MyApp.Views

Views:

dotnet new maui-view -n CardView -na MyApp.Views

dotnet new maui-view-cs -n OrderView -na MyApp.Views

Shell:

dotnet new maui-shell -n AppShell -na MyApp

Here -n denotes the name of the project/page/view that is to be created (for pages/views, don't need to suffix it with .xaml, it will be added automatically) (Can also be specified as --name).

Note: If name parameter input is not provided, the .NET CLI template engine will take the current folder name in the context as its name (default behavior).

And -na denotes the namespace under which the file is to be created (Can also be specified as --namespace).