CommunityToolkit/Maui 11.2.0

11.2.0: .NET MAUI Dependency Update & RatingView ⭐️

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What's Changed

• Rating view by @GeorgeLeithead in #2191
• SpeechRecognition fixes by @VladislavAntonyuk in #2562
• Enhance copilot instructions for C# best practices by @ne0rrmatrix in #2586
• fix TouchBehavior Android KeyBoard activation by @plewm in #2497
• Enable developers to inherit from BaseBehavior and BaseConverter again by @bijington in #2573
• Run UserStoppedTypingBehavior Command on UIThread by @pictos in #2591

Requirements

The following tools are now required for CommunityToolkit.Maui:

• Download/install .NET SDK v9.0.202
• Install Xcode 16.2.0 (or higher)
  • Read the latest .NET MAUI Release wiki to always find the latest-supported version) of Xcode for .NET MAUI
  • We HIGHLY recommend using the open-source tool Xcodes to easily manage your installed Xcode versions
• Update to the latest stable version of Visual Studio (or Jet Brains Rider)
• After installing the latest stable .NET SDK, update to the latest stable version of the .NET MAUI workload:
  • On macOS, open the Terminal and enter the following command: sudo dotnet workload install maui; sudo dotnet workload update
  • On Windows, open the command prompt (or Powershell) and enter the following command: dotnet workload install maui;dotnet workload update
• Add a global.json file to your application with the following parameters to ensure you're not using a unsupported preview version of .NET (example below)
  • The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit does not support preview releases of .NET

global.json

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "9.0.202", 
    "rollForward": "latestFeature",
    "allowPrerelease": false
  }
}

Le keeping the house

• [Housekeeping] Increase minimum .NET SDK dependency to v9.0.202 by @TheCodeTraveler in #2592
• [Housekeeping] Add Co-Pilot Prompts by @GeorgeLeithead in #2576
• [Housekeeping] Fix Typos in CONTRIBUTING.md by @GeorgeLeithead in #2544
• [Housekeeping] Clean up AvatarView sample namespaces by @GeorgeLeithead in #2546
• Increase Microsoft.Maui.* Dependencies to v9.0.40 by @TheCodeTraveler in #2525
• Bump MauiPackageVersion to 9.0.50 by @pictos in #2584

New Contributors

• @dotMorten made their first contribution in #2549
• @phunkeler made their first contribution in #2523
• @plewm made their first contribution in #2497

Full Changelog: 11.1.0...11.2.0