Coding With David

    Maui has been out for a while now and I thought I would learn how to create a Blazor hybrid application and see what it is about.   There are blog posts and YouTube videos on how to do this so, see the links below. I am not focusing on the step-by-step but on what I learned by doing this exercise. It will help others.   Prep Work           You will need to make sure you have the Maui project templates installed in Visual Studio.           Go to the VS installer.         a.      Click the modified button.          Make sure under the Desktop and UI Development the .Net Multi-platform App UI development is checked, see image.        If not check it and click modify to install it.     Create the Project 1.      Open Visual Studio and click on “Create new Project.” 2.      Find the .Net MAUI Blazor App box and click it. 3.      You can pick .Net 6 or higher.   Run the Application You can launch the application the way you normally launch your ap

You may be asking yourself, what’s the difference, plenty.  If you are a developer who only codes because it is your job and you make a good living, which there is no problem with that, you may not enjoy working for a software company. Both companies need those types of developers.  But if you align yourself as a software engineer, who likes solving problems and is passionate about the profession of Software development, then you want to work for a Software company.  A company that makes and sells software is usually founded by a domain expert who wrote or had a friend write an application he needed, and they started reselling it.  A software company has usually evolved from a company that sells software but learned that the value they are providing to their customers is a high-quality system and high-quality customer support that improves the user’s lives.   My goal is not to state that one type of company is better or worse than the other, my goal is to make you aware to see what