https://rakhama.com/tags/mvvm/Recent content in Mvvm on Garcia's Guide to the GalaxyHugoenSat, 23 May 2026 14:43:39 +1000https://rakhama.com/posts/messaging-with-mvvm-community-toolkit/Sat, 23 May 2026 14:43:39 +1000https://rakhama.com/posts/messaging-with-mvvm-community-toolkit/<img src="https://rakhama.com/posts/messaging-with-mvvm-community-toolkit/cover_hu_2aee56eeed65a5ba.jpg" /><p>I&rsquo;ve been doing some work with <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/">.NET MAUI</a> lately.</p> <p>I know, I know, it was my idea and I&rsquo;ve only got myself to blame. I&rsquo;ll maybe make another post about how not-very-good .NET MAUI is out of the box and how <a href="https://avaloniaui.net/">Avalonia UI</a> is, in my opinion, what it should have been, but this post is about how to use the poorly documented <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/">MVVM Community Toolkit</a>&rsquo;s messaging functionality to decouple my app instead of relying on event handlers.</p> <p>Long story short, the idea is sound but <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/communitytoolkit/mvvm/">the documentation</a> fails to effectively surface some pretty fundamental implementation details. The <a href="https://aka.ms/mvvmtoolkit/samples">sample app</a> doesn&rsquo;t help much more either.</p><p><a href="https://rakhama.com/posts/messaging-with-mvvm-community-toolkit/">Continue reading &raquo;</a></p>