Monthly Recap-September 2025
Hey there! Welcome to our monthly roundup of the coolest updates and features in the Grial UI Kit, plus the latest news from the .NET MAUI platform. There's a lot of amazing stuff you won't want to miss. If you enjoy our content, don't forget to subscribe to stay up to date!
33K Demo Downloads
Huge milestone—33,000 downloads of the Grial Demo App! Thanks for exploring our real-world screens, flows, and polished UI patterns. It’s the easiest way to see what your next .NET MAUI app can look and feel like.
Haven’t tried it yet? Download the demo and unlock 40% off a Grial UI Kit license right inside the app. Explore, learn, and ship faster—then grab your discount while it’s live. 🎁
New MAUI Version - 9.0.110 SR11
MAUI 9 SR11 lands with 72 commits of fixes and polish across Android, iOS/Mac, and Windows—think smoother CollectionView/CarouselView behavior, cleaner theming, and steadier gestures, pickers, and navigation. It’s the kind of update that quietly removes papercuts so your app just feels better.
You’ll also get sturdier CI/tests, faster image/layout paths, and NativeAOT/template touch-ups that help day-to-day dev. If you’re on MAUI 9, this is an easy “upgrade and move on” release. 🛠️
UXDivers Kitchen
Choosing between infinite scroll, Load More, or pagination? UXDivers’ most recent post makes it simple with an intent-first guide for list-heavy screens.
Exploration favors infinite scroll; comparison and refinding lean on pagination; Load More balances speed and control. Plus quick tips for preserving position, virtualization, accessibility, and SEO. 🔍
Hand picked for you... 🤏
There's a lot going on in the .NET MAUI world, sometimes it's easy to get lost. This is our top 3 selection of blogposts and announcements from this amazing community.
.NET MAUI Community Standup
In the .NET MAUI Community Standup, the team celebrated .NET 10 RC1 (go-live!) and showed off Visual Studio 2026—faster starts, snappier loads, an Insiders channel, plus iOS 26 changes to keep an eye on. Events are heating up, community contributions keep rolling, and the Syncfusion + MAUI webinar is around the corner.
Tech-wise, Maui Reactor, XAML source generation boosts, and .NET Aspire + MAUI (with Dev Tunnels) stole the show—plus early experiments with Android CoreCLR and NativeAOT. Head over to the .NET MAUI Community Standup video for the full chat and demos. 🎥
Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework
Azure AI Foundry rolled out the Microsoft Agent Framework—an open-source SDK + runtime that unifies AutoGen and Semantic Kernel so you can build, observe, and govern multi-agent apps without juggling tools. Plug in any API via OpenAPI, add tools with MCP, collaborate with Agent2Agent, and deploy to Foundry with observability and compliance built in.
Bonus drops: multi-agent workflows (private preview) for stateful orchestration, OpenTelemetry tracing across frameworks, Voice Live API (GA) for low-latency speech, and Responsible AI previews (task adherence, prompt shields, PII). One to watch. 🤖
VS 2026 First Look
On Gerald Versluis’ channel, Gerald and Pedro Jesus unbox Visual Studio 2026—and it’s fast. Startup, solution load, and builds feel lighter, the UI leans Fluent, and a new Insiders channel ships updates more often. For MAUI, .NET 10 templates now add Aspire orchestration out of the box, with service discovery, config injection, and Dev Tunnels to make local-to-device testing painless.
They also spotlight XAML Source Generation (opt-in now, trending default in .NET 11) to catch layout anti-patterns at build time, and Copilot upgrades that can run tools (with approval) and pair with profilers. Curious? Watch Gerald and Pedro put 2026 through its paces and see what sticks for your workflow. 🚀
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