VijayAnand.MauiTemplates 1.0.8

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

Project template for .NET MAUI Class Library 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 12.

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 library project, pages, and views out these templates:

dotnet new mauiclasslib -n MyApp.Core

Now with more options while creating the library project:

dotnet new mauiclasslib -n MyApp.Core --include-toolkit yes --include-markup yes

Here, --include-toolkit and --include-markup can also be used with shortened parameter names as -it and -im respectively. For more details: run this command in the terminal:

dotnet new mauiclasslib --help

Page:

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

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

View:

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

dotnet new maui-view-cs -n CardView -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).