Monthly Recap-May 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!
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MAUI gets better with .NET 10 Preview 4
Need a reason to grab the new bits? Preview 4 gives .NET MAUI a tidy quality boost, headlined by a modernized MediaPicker for smoother camera and gallery access and brand-new nullable pickers that cut down on boilerplate null checks. Add a round of bug fixes and performance touches, and day-to-day development just feels sharper.
Updating is simple: install the Preview 4 SDK, rebuild, and see the changes pop on first launch. If you’re already testing .NET 10, this drop is pure upside. 😎
UXDivers Kitchen
UXDivers’ Pyxa blog pulls back the curtain on how its team partnered with Stellaromics and Stanford researchers to turn mountains of spatial-genomics data into a clear, intuitive product. The post walks through the real work beneath the interface—aligning biologists, engineers, and hardware specialists around a shared, user-first strategy that proves great design starts long before pixels hit the screen.
It’s exactly the kind of deep content UXDivers packs into its blog: practical resources, fresh insights, and battle-tested tools for building exceptional user experiences across every platform. Start with the Pyxa story, then explore the rest of the library to level up your own UX game. 🌟
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.
Update Your .NET MAUI UI at Design Time
Gerald Versluis’ latest demo shows off Visual Studio’s live preview, Hot Reload, and the Live Visual Tree—all working together so you can tweak XAML and watch the UI refresh instantly without leaving the IDE. No more emulator juggling or full rebuilds; just edit, save, and see the change right away.
From inspecting bindings to adjusting margins on the fly, the session makes it clear: keeping Visual Studio up-to-date means faster design cycles and happier devs. Give these tools a spin and turn UI polishing into the fun part of your day. 🚀
Build Your Own MCP Server in C#
A new walkthrough from James Montemagno shows how quick it is to spin up a Model Context Protocol server with C# and the official SDK. Starting from an empty console app, the demo adds a few “Echo/Reverse/Length” tools, then watches Copilot call them live in VS Code—no extra glue code needed.
It finishes by swapping in a real REST API, containerizing the server, and reconnecting Copilot to the Docker image. The takeaway: any business endpoint can become a natural-language tool in minutes. Give it a whirl and let Copilot talk to your own data next. 🛠️
AI Agents Meet .NET Aspire
Microsoft Reactor just kicked off an AI Agents hackathon and, to spark ideas, Bruno Capuano shows how .NET Aspire can wrangle a fleet of autonomous agents—mixing Semantic Kernel skills with Azure AI Services and full observability out of the box. In the demo, agents fetch data, plot charts, and even write copy, all tracked end-to-end in Aspire’s dashboard.
Need scale? Aspire spins up microservices, databases, and Bicep templates in one go, so your agent-powered e-shop is cloud-ready in minutes. Repos and prizes await—submissions close 30 April, so get building! 🤖
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