--- title: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries... description: A conference talk walks through three open source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit libraries that reduce boilerplate: the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (alerts,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-net-maui-community-toolkits-3-essential-libraries-for-every-net-maui-dev---brandon-minnick-abo703kl1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - Brandon Minnick | daily.dev og:description: A conference talk walks through three open source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit libraries that reduce boilerplate: the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (alerts,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-net-maui-community-toolkits-3-essential-libraries-for-every-net-maui-dev---brandon-minnick-abo703kl1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/abo703kL1.png og:image:alt: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - Brandon Minnick og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - Brandon Minnick **[NDC Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/ndc)** · 46 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conference talk walks through three open source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit libraries that reduce boilerplate: the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (alerts, behaviors, converters, layouts, popups, bindable property source generators), the MVVM Community Toolkit (observable properties, relay commands via attributes, platform-agnostic), and the C# Markup toolkit (fluent C# UI instead of XAML). The speaker, the toolkit's lead maintainer, live-codes a sample tap-game app, converting boilerplate bindable properties and view model code into attribute-driven source-generated code, removing hundreds of lines in a real production app. He also points to Microsoft Docs hosting, a monthly open community call, and his courses on dometrain.com covering .NET MAUI, async/await, and Microsoft.Extensions.AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does the MVVM Community Toolkit's ObservableProperty attribute reduce boilerplate compared to manually implementing INotifyPropertyChanged? Adding the ObservableProperty attribute to a partial property field automatically generates the full property with INotifyPropertyChanged calls, including notifying dependent properties via NotifyPropertyChangedFor. In one production app, replacing manual property and command boilerplate with ObservableProperty and RelayCommand attributes removed 657 lines of code while preserving identical behavior. _Developers trimming MVVM boilerplate can find more .NET MAUI deep dives through daily.dev._ ### What does the bindable property source generator in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit do? It lets a developer declare a bindable property by writing a simple partial property with a BindableProperty attribute, instead of manually writing the verbose BindableProperty.Create syntax with property name, type, owner type, and default value. The generator also wires up property-changed callbacks when a method name is supplied, eliminating hand-written boilerplate for both regular and attached bindable properties. _Anyone wiring up custom .NET MAUI controls can track tooling like this via daily.dev._ ### Can the MVVM Community Toolkit be used outside of .NET MAUI projects? Yes, the MVVM Community Toolkit (community toolkit.mvvm) is platform-agnostic and works in any .NET application using the MVVM pattern, including WPF, WinUI, and WinForms apps, not just .NET MAUI projects. _Developers choosing an MVVM helper library across WPF, WinUI, or MAUI can follow updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Tips for Getting Started with .NET MAUI](https://daily.dev/posts/tips-for-getting-started-with-net-maui-qth1lpq1d) · Telerik · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Build Modern .NET MAUI Apps with .NET 11 \[Webinar Show Notes\]](https://daily.dev/posts/build-modern-net-maui-apps-with-net-11-webinar-show-notes--wlsnsznb2) · Syncfusion · 9 upvotes · 0 comments - [MAUI Avalonia Preview 1](https://daily.dev/posts/maui-avalonia-preview-1-xbnwvwfy3) · Avalonia UI Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#c#](https://daily.dev/tags/c#), [#.net-maui](https://daily.dev/tags/.net-maui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-net-maui-community-toolkits-3-essential-libraries-for-every-net-maui-dev---brandon-minnick-abo703kl1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - 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