Paul Usher
About
Paul Usher is a Technical Evangelist for DevExpress and a software developer, architect and consultant with more than 30 years of experience building commercial software. He specialises in C#, .NET, Blazor and .NET MAUI, creating custom business applications that replace inefficient processes with practical software solutions. Paul has built and deployed applications across desktop, web and mobile platforms for industries including automotive, field service, asset management, franchising and professional services. A Microsoft MVP Alumni, published author and international speaker, Paul prefers real-world examples over contrived demos and regularly shares lessons learned from building software that has to survive actual users, unreliable networks and production environments. Outside software, Paul is a musician, LEGO enthusiast and serial side-project creator. He writes about software, technology, business and whatever else has caught his attention at https://paul-usher.com.
Sessions at .NET Conf 2026
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Thursday, November 12
4:30 PM - 5 PM PST
Your .NET MAUI App Works. Now Give It to a Real User.
Paul Usher
Building a .NET MAUI application is easy. Building one that survives workshops, warehouses, field technicians, unreliable connectivity, large datasets, cameras, signatures, PDFs and users who absolutely will press that button twice is another matter entirely. In this session, we'll look at lessons learned from building and deploying real-world .NET MAUI business applications across iOS and Android. We'll explore practical patterns for responsive mobile UI, local data, offline workflows, asynchronous operations, device capabilities and interfaces that need to work equally well on phones and tablets. We'll also look at what .NET 11 brings to the MAUI landscape, including the move to CoreCLR, and where that may change the way we think about performance and application architecture. The examples come from production applications used in workshops and field-service environments, where network connectivity, hardware differences and unpredictable user behaviour are part of the specification whether we like it or not. No Todo apps. No perfect Wi-Fi. Just production software and the lessons learned when it meets the real world.
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