.NET Conf “Focus on MAUI” A Day Full Of Inspiration

Sania Kanwal
BITLogix
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7 min readDec 2, 2022

BITLogix organized a Conference titled .NET Conf: “Focus on MAUI”.

Microsoft’s influence has greatly aided the development of the. NET community. To keep up with the quick transition to the digital age in the modern IT world, engineers, developers, and leaders in the IT industry regularly congregate. NET conferences to share news, knowledge, and ideas.

What .NET Conf “Focus on MAUI” was All about?

A continuation of Microsoft’s initiative to unite the tech community with the .NET community to encourage shared experience and learning is the .NET Conf. — Focus on MAUI. The experience was made possible by BITLogix Pvt. Ltd. through this gathering, where subject matter experts offered their insightful talks about creating a sustainable tech ecosystem using .NET Multi-platform App UI. Numerous IT professionals had the opportunity to join the enabling community and learn how to create native apps for any device using .NET MAUI at this event, which took place in Lahore on September 3, 2022.

Overview of the Conference:

· Keynote speech

· Introduction to App Development

· Building Sustainable Application

· Enabling UI Automation

· Business Case & success Story of Retail Insight

· Tech Guy to Industry Leader — Frankly Speaking

· IoT in Practice

· Megabytes of Application Security

Let's talk about the Keynote speech

Muhammad Arshad, AVP of BITLogix Pvt. Ltd. and the organizer, delivers the keynote speech. He briefs the crowd on .Net MAUI, the fabulous discussions that will going to be held in the forthcoming, and all the applicable data about the occasion while framing the significance and request of the .Net innovation’s looming contemporary time.

Muhammad Arshad, AVP of BITLogix Pvt. Ltd.

App Development with .NET MAUI

Speaker: Gerald Versluis, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Gerald Versluis, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

At the point when the time had come to begin our most memorable meeting or start the gathering, it was done significantly by Gerlad Introduction to App Development, his subject to talk was magnificent and instructed. How does indeed .Net MAUI work? Rich Libraries, Building UI, Simple Customization in Net Maui, Content like Net Maui Blazor, and so on are covered.

.NET MAUI provides a highly flexible and powerful way to create apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, from very simple to highly robust and complex. Is this one size fits all? Where should you start? In this talk, Gerald gave an overview of.NET MAUI, explaining what it is, how it fits into the.NET environment, how it differs from Xamarin, and how to get started.

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Building Sustainable Application with .NET MAUI

Speaker: Naweed Akram, PMP®, TOGAF®

Naweed Akram, PMP®, TOGAF®

.NET MAUI doesn’t just enable you to create cross-platform applications on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android… it helps you to do it with style! You can create beautiful apps that delight your users, using great built-in features, native controls, and community libraries.
Naweed Akram spoke about how to use Net MAUI to create sustainable business apps, User Experience value, UI vs UX, Custom Controls, Animations — Basics, and gave multiple amazing demonstrations of Base Pages, User on-boarding, Visual Indicators, Pop up & Bottom Sheet, Animations in this session. This demonstrates his enthusiasm for his work.

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Enabling UI Automation with .Net Maui

Speaker: Syed Hoque, Senior Software Engineer at Retail Insight

Syed Hoque, Senior Software Engineer at Retail Insight

Automation properties were the Xamarin Forms approach to providing accessibility values in apps has been superseded by semantic properties. To allow UI Automation, Syed discussed the use of .Net MAUI. He also discussed Xamarin Forms, .Net MAUI, and Appium. Finally, he gave the audience a very captivating demonstration.

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Business Case & success Story of Retail Insight

Speakers: Garima Khana & Aakash Mehmood

Garima Khana & Aakash Mehmood

Garima opened the session with an amazing background success story and how Xamarin helped them in their successful journey. She talked about Woolworth’s Group, Compass with Woolworth & Retail Insight, and how Xamarin helps Compass? Benefits of Xamarin, Stores, Woolworth’s and so on. And when it came to the technical journey, Akash discussed how it began, technical challenges such as choosing technology, navigation, biometrics, massage center problems, and so on, and provided graceful advice and examples to the audience.

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Networking Break:

A creative brain is engaged, challenged, and…rested. Gone are the days of information-packed, no-time-to-breathe seminars and conferences. While the best events are still full of valuable content and learning opportunities, they are also designed to empower attendees to take enriching, restorative breaks. Therefore, it was a time for networking as well as for the audience to interact and take a tea break.
Here is some sneak peeks:

Frankly Speaking!

Speakers: Zafar Ahmad & Abdullah Asad

Zafar Ahmad & Abdullah Asad

Zafar Ahmad, CTO of BITLogix (Private) Ltd, and Abdullah Asad had an enlightening conversation. Recent technology issues the sector faces, and our educational system has all been highlighted during the discussion of his path, hardships, and helpful advice to aspiring engineers on starting their professions and how to support themselves in the field.
Because Mr. Zafar Ahmad highlighted many challenges, inspirations, and issues experienced by developers, this was a wonderful talk to listen to for individuals who are beginning their tech path.

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IoT in Practice with .NET MAUI

Speaker: Saamer Mansoor CTO at TonDone | G20 YEA Delegate

Saamer Mansoor CTO at TonDone

And this is one of Sameer’s sessions with the highest level of interaction. The day was almost over, and the audience was worn out. But Sameer has excellent communication abilities, so even though his subject is difficult to understand, he can engage the audience and make the entire session quite interesting.
When working on IoT projects, you will eventually need to test the integration of the “device side” and the “solution side,” he tells the audience. Numerous options exist for this (UI-oriented or command-line-oriented).

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Megabytes of Mobile Application Security

Speaker: Muhammad Arshad, AVP R&D @BITLogix

Muhammad Arshad, AVP of BITLogix Pvt. Ltd.

Now the day was drawing to an end, and it was the day's final session. The final session was concluded by the AVP of BITlogix, Muhammad Arshad. The topic of his discussion was application security, he did his best to cover a range of subjects, including the basics of cryptography, certificate pinning, code obfuscation, and other exciting topics, to keep the audience interested after the busy day before the wrap-up. Due to time constraints, he could only give a quick demonstration before calling an end to the long conference day.

Certificates Of Appreciation

Everyone likes to be praised for the work they put in, therefore here are some heroes that worked hard and made contributions by helping in conference management or making it happen with their skills. They were awarded certificates by Zafar Ahmad, CTO of BITLogix (Private) Ltd.

“Alone we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

Wrap up Time

And now that the lengthy conference has successfully ended, it’s time to wrap things up. Here is a snapshot of the day.

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