Kodsnack 656 - People want native controls, with Maddy Montaquila
2025-08-19 05:26
Fredrik talks to Maddy Montaquila about building user interfaces, and how .net has come a much longer way than people may think.
We talk about the various .net-related options for building user interfaces, mixing and matching MAUI stuff, Blazor stuff, and straight up web stuff. We discuss the way to go for Windows desktop apps among all these options.
The perception of .net - a challenge and something being actively worked on.
We also touch on actually useful AI, plus some unexpectedly fond memories of the touch bar.
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
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Links
- Maddy
- Maddy’s Øredev 2024 talks: Hybrid web and desktop apps with .net MAUI and Blazor and .net all the things - cloud, mobile, web, and more!
- .net Aspire
- Blazor hybrid
- MAUI
- .net conf 2024
- .net 9
- Syncfusion
- Syncfusion controls for MAUI apps
- Blazor render modes
- Hybrid web view
- Electron
- Techbash
- Xamarin
- Flutter
- React
- Blackboard
- Timeedit
- Redis
- Opentelemetry
- Rabbitmq
- Ollama
- Support us on Ko-fi
- Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too!
- Winforms
- WPF
- Winui
- Touch bar
- .net ahead of time compilation
- Performance improvements in .net 9 - the 300 pages blog post
- Microsoft extensions AI
- Amazon go stores
- Spring boot
- The minimal API structure
Titles
- Two of my fun things
- Trust me, I can ramble
- I can ramble for eternity
- The shimmer control
- A bunch of wasted space in my brain
- If you have a Javascript frontend
- A lot with the hybrid stuff
- Nice step up from Electron
- MAUI doesn’t need me
- People want native controls
- Web is reach
- If this guy’s on vacation
- The only .net you ever have to see
- Java with more
- The polyglot world
- A deeply native Windows experience
- It was a nice volume slider
- The .net perception
- Three less indents
- Purists of architecture
- Blended experiences