The Objective
Many organizations, especially in FinTech, face significant operational inefficiencies from maintaining separate legacy desktop (like WPF) and modern web applications. The objective is to unify these development efforts to reduce costs, accelerate new feature delivery, and provide a consistent user experience across platforms.
Architectural Approach: Strategic Unification with Blazor Hybrid
A Blazor Hybrid architecture using .NET MAUI offers a powerful solution. It allows development teams to leverage existing C# and web development talent to build a single application that runs natively on the desktop while sharing UI and logic with a web portal. This eliminates duplicated effort and streamlines release cycles.
- Shared UI Layer: Build your UI with Blazor Razor components that can be shared between the native desktop app and a web application.
- Native Performance: The Blazor Hybrid app runs as a native desktop application, with full access to the underlying hardware and OS features.
- Component-Driven Development: Use a rich suite of UI components, like the Mescius Blazor Hybrid Power Pack, to quickly build out complex features for both desktop and web targets from a single toolset.
Blueprint Summary
- Leverage Blazor Hybrid to share code between desktop and web, reducing development costs.
- Use a comprehensive component suite to ensure a consistent, feature-rich UI on all platforms.
- Modernize legacy desktop applications without a full rewrite by embedding a web UI.
- Accelerate time-to-market by writing features once and deploying them everywhere.