JDK Switcheroo for "Xamarin"

Read more here on the move from Oracle's JDK to a more lightweight version intended solely for Android development.

Visual Studio 2022 August 2025 Updates

August 2025 brought new amendments to Visual Studio 2022. 

For the August 19th release (17.14.13), these included the latest MAUI install (9.0.82), a fix for a stack overflow crash when linking MASM-generated debug information, and a fix for the Live Visual Tree horizontal scrollbar (Live Visual Tree gives you a real-time view of running XAML code).

Versions follow the MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD convention, so August 19th release is the 13th build of the 14th minor release, of the 17th major release.

Dot net (.NET) MAUI for Dummies

Dot net (.NET) MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop applications with C# (and XAML optionally).

The upside is you just have one codebase which can be used to render UI on Windows, Android, iOS, macOS and Samsung Tizen. 

For Windows, WinUI 3 is used as the native platform (this means it will work on Windows 10 version 1809 or later, and Windows 11).

Mermaid has evolved from multifarious UI technologies.