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Setting Up Our Own Development Environment

Discover how to prepare your development environment for building cross-platform applications with .NET MAUI. Learn to install the necessary IDEs, enable the MAUI workload, and create your first MAUI or Blazor app using Visual Studio or command-line tools.

Downloading the tools

To work with .NET MAUI on our own development machine, we'll need the following:

  • A suitable code editor or an integrated development environment (IDE).

  • .NET 6 SDK or newer.

The recommended IDE for MAUI is either Visual Studio if we're using Windows or Visual Studio for Mac if we're using Mac. Although MAUI applications can be built in Visual Studio Code ...