Slowly but surely, Microsoft is pushing forward with .NET MAUI (pronounced “Mow-ee”), a cross-platform UI building toolset using C#. While the full support of Visual Studio came in 2022, it took over 2 years for it to arrive on VS Code.
The .NET MAUI Extension for Visual Studio Code has now reached a stable status. It is developed from the C# extension and C# Dev Kit. Key features include the ability to write UI with MAUI and see instant changes with hot reload, as well as full XAML syntax highlighting support.
To use it, you’ll need .NET 7 or higher and install the C# Dev Kit extension.
Source: .NET Blog
TLDR: Microsoft is slowly advancing .NET MAUI for cross-platform UI building with C#, now available on Visual Studio Code with features like hot reload and XAML syntax highlighting.
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