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///<summary>Executes the logic for when <see cref="Time"/> is changing.</summary> [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler. GeneratedCode("CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.SourceGenerators. ObservablePropertyGenerator", "8.0.0.0")]

partial void OnTimeChanging(global::System. DateTime value);

///<summary>Executes the logic for when <see cref="Time"/> just changed.</summary> [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler. GeneratedCode("CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.SourceGenerators. ObservablePropertyGenerator", "8.0.0.0")]

partial void OnTimeChanged(global::System. DateTime value);

}

}

You can see that the generated source code looks a little noisy, but it does in fact generate the property you need. View the section highlighted in bold above.

I have only really scratched the surface regarding the functionality that the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm offers. I strongly urge you to refer to the documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/

communitytoolkit/mvvm/ to learn how it can further aid your application development.

Summary

I hope I have made it clear that there is no single right way to do things or build applications. You should pick and choose what approaches will best suit your environment. With this point in mind, the goal of this chapter was to give you a good overview of several different approaches to architecting

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your application. There are always a lot of opinions floating around to indicate which architectures people prefer but I strongly urge you to evaluate which will help you to achieve your goals best.

In this chapter, you have

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Source Code

The resulting source code for this chapter can be found on the GitHub repository at ­https://github.com/Apress/Introducing-MAUI/tree/ main/ch04.

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