James Crutchley
ne0rmatrix.bsky.social
James Crutchley
@ne0rmatrix.bsky.social
Dotnet Maui Developer, Volunteer on the Maui Community toolkit team. I love to read sci-fi and fantasy books. Avid reader and I enjoy developing using dotnet!
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We now have an official profiling doc for .NET MAUI:
learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/...

This gathers info from various wikis in one place and has simplified instructions for dotnet-dsrouter!
Performance Profiling - .NET MAUI
Learn how to profile the performance of your .NET MAUI app.
learn.microsoft.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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❤️.NET 10 + .NET MAUI Community Toolkits ❤️

We've updated every library for .NET 10!
✅ CommunityToolkit.Maui v13.0.0
✅ CommunityToolkit.Maui.Markup v7.0.0
✅ CommunityToolkit.Maui.Camera v5.0.0
✅ CommunityToolkit.Maui.MediaElement v7.0.0
✅ CommunityToolkit.Maui.Maps v4.0.0

github.com/CommunityToo...
GitHub - CommunityToolkit/Maui: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains .NET MAUI Extensions, Advanced UI/UX Controls, and Behaviors to help make your life as a .N...
The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains .NET MAUI Extensions, Advanced UI/UX Controls, and Behaviors to help make your life as a .NET MAUI developer easier - Co...
github.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🔥 .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v12 has just been released and its a BIG ONE!

Are you using Popups?! Then you will love this release, introducing Popups v2!

A complete rewrite to make things more stable and easier to work with!

github.com/CommunityToo...
Release v12.0.0: Popup V2 is here! · CommunityToolkit/Maui
An all new implementation of Popups! We complete wrote Popup from the ground up so that it is now more stable and easier to work with than ever. If you're migrating, be sure to check out our guid h...
github.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Saw this and my mind was blown.
June 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Drop in on the .NET Foundation's latest community meeting as we hear about the current happenings in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! https://msft.it/63321Spb35
#dotnetmaui
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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🚨 LIVE: .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Standup 🚨

Come join us for this month's MAUI Community Toolkit Standup!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vila...
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Monthly Standup, May 2025
YouTube video by .NET Foundation
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@jfversluis.dev I just realized removing old version of dotnet on my mac will actually fix bugs I have run into. File picker was not working and after removing old version of dotnet it now works!
April 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Big shout out to Twan de Boer for doing the hard work on this. It's much appreciated 🙏 If you are ever looking to hire a freelance .NET MAUI developer, ask me for an introduction to him!
April 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The audio plugin for .NET MAUI just got better, a lot better!

I have just released v4 in preview which adds reading the incoming audio as a streaming. This allows you to process it in real-time! Lots of possibilities with this new functionality.

Try it out and let us know how it goes!
Release v4.0.0 Preview 1: Streaming audio is here · jfversluis/Plugin.Maui.Audio
With this release you can now access the audio stream directly while recording. Use the new AudioStreamer for this. This allows you to process the audio directly as it comes in 🤯 Big shout out to @...
github.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Wait…who is this? Only the @sessionize.com speaker of the day! I really appreciate having the opportunity to speak and being speaker of the day feels really special.

A few years ago I was terrified at the idea of public speaking, if you have any desire to start and aren’t sure how DM me
April 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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I am so excited and happy to announce that the second edition of my book 'Introducing .NET MAUI' has been published. You can checkout the book at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A huge thank you to @jfversluis.dev for the technical review and always being there to help guide me on this journey.
Introducing .NET MAUI
Gain insights on the latest updates to .NET MAUI with the release of version 9.0. Learn about features like AOT, Polly, MauiReactor, Shell, and more.
link.springer.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Just dropped a new blog post! Microsoft is deprecating ListView in .NET MAUI, and I've put together a guide to help you migrate to CollectionView before it happens. Stay ahead of the curve and check out my post for all the details: dev.to/vhugogarcia/... #dotnet #dotnetmaui
https://dev.to/vhugogarcia/deprecation-of-listview-in-net-maui-cga​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
March 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Oooh look! My car runs .NET MAUI!
March 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A couple of months ago, I published a VS code extension to delete the /bin and /obj folders from a right-click 🙂 as well, this can be a companion for the command 🙌🏻. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
Delete bin and obj Folders - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Deletes the bin and obj folders from the selected folder.
marketplace.visualstudio.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM