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The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125006
Pages 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Pieter Nijs Pieter Nijs
Profile icon Pieter Nijs

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Key Concepts and Components
2. Chapter 1: What Is the MVVM Design Pattern? 3. Chapter 2: What is .NET MAUI? 4. Chapter 3: Data Binding Building Blocks in .NET MAUI 5. Chapter 4: Data Binding in .NET MAUI 6. Chapter 5: Community Toolkits 7. Chapter 6: Working with Collections 8. Part 2: Building a .NET MAUI App Using MVVM
9. Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and Messaging 10. Chapter 8: Navigation in MVVM 11. Chapter 9: Handling User Input and Validation 12. Chapter 10: Working with Remote Data 13. Part 3: Mastering MVVM Development
14. Chapter 11: Creating MVVM-Friendly Controls 15. Chapter 12: Localization with MVVM 16. Chapter 13: Unit Testing 17. Chapter 14: Troubleshooting and Debugging Tips 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Confirming or canceling navigation

As users interact with our application, there may be moments when they’re about to navigate away from a page containing unsaved changes or important input. To prevent potential data loss, it’s essential to prompt for confirmation before allowing such navigation. Let’s see how we could build this by leveraging the NavigationService that we built in the previous chapter:

  1. Let’s start by adding the following interface called INavigatable to the Navigation folder of the Recipes.Client.Core project:
    public interface INavigatable
    {
        Task<bool> CanNavigateFrom(NavigationType navigationType);
    }

    ViewModels that want to control whether the user is able to navigate can implement this interface. This is analogous to the other interfaces we introduced in the context of navigation, such as the INavigatedFrom, INavigatedTo, and INavigationParameterReceiver interfaces.

  2. Extend the INavigationInterceptor...
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