Here Are the World’s First and Only UI Controls for Xamarin.Forms WPF

When people think about developing desktop applications, Windows Presentation Foundation is often the first thought in their minds. This is because WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming.

But when you need cross-platform support, Xamarin.Forms comes first to your mind to address your requirements.

First and only Xamarin.Forms WPF component vendor

As you know, Xamarin.Forms has preview support for WPF. As usual with our commitment, we at Syncfusion extended Xamarin.Forms WPF support for several controls that play an essential role in cross-platform application development. As of now, Syncfusion is the only Xamarin.Forms WPF component vendor in the market.

In this blog post, I will summarize the Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms controls that have been extended to support WPF. The controls are:

• Chart
• DataGrid
• ListView
• Schedule
• Segmented Control
• Text Input Layout
• Button
• Switch
• Chips
• Radio Button
• CheckBox
• Border
• Gradient View

Chart

Xamarin.Forms WPF Chart is a mobile-friendly, easy-to-use, cross-platform charting package. It is used to add beautiful charts to mobile and desktop apps. It contains a rich gallery of 30+ charts and graphs, ranging from line to financial charts, that cater to all charting scenarios. Its high performance helps render large amounts of data quickly in your mobile and desktop devices. It also comes with a lot of features such as zooming, panning, tooltip, crosshair, trackball, drill-down, and events to make the charts more interactive.

DataGrid

Xamarin.Forms WPF DataGrid is a high-performance grid component that helps you to display and manipulate large amounts of data efficiently in a tabular format. Its rich feature set includes functionalities like data binding, sorting, grouping, editing, filtering, resizing, and more. It has also been optimized to handle high-frequency and real-time updates.

 

ListView

Xamarin.Forms WPF ListView control is a list-like interface used to render a set of data items in a vertical or horizontal orientation with a visual representation of linear or grid structure. It supports all the essential features, such as template selectors, horizontal and vertical orientations, reordering items, autofitting items, and more. The control also supports sorting, grouping, and filtering with optimizations for working with large amounts of data.

Scheduler

Xamarin.Forms WPF Scheduler control is an event calendar that is used to schedule and manage appointments through an intuitive user interface, similar to the native device calendar. Five different view modes are supported: day, week, workweek, month, and timeline views.

Segmented Control

Xamarin.Forms WPF Segmented Control is a linear segment made up of multiple segments with each segment functioning as a button. The segments are the same size and allow users to select from among multiple contexts.

Text Input Layout

Xamarin.Forms WPF Text Input Layout or TextBox is a container control that lets you add a password toggle icon to show or hide passwords, leading and trailing icons, and assistive labels such as a floating label, or hint, error, and help text on top of the Xamarin.Forms framework’s Entry and Editor controls.

Button

Xamarin.Forms WPF Button is a custom button control. It has several built-in features such as UI customization, support for icons, predefined styles, toggle states, corner edge radii, and customization of the appearance of different visual states using the visual state manager.

Switch

Xamarin.Forms WPF Switch allows you to turn an item on and off. It also provides an optional indeterminate state. It supports VSM, a busy state, and colors.

Chips

Xamarin.Forms WPF Chips is a feature-rich control that presents information in an interactive and customizable layout. It arranges multiple chips in a layout and groups them to make selection easy.

Radio Button

Xamarin.Forms WPF Radio Button control is a selection control that allows users to select one option from a list of predefined choices.

CheckBox

Xamarin.Forms WPF CheckBox is a selection control that allows users to select one or more options from a list of predefined choices.

Border

Xamarin.Forms WPF Border is a container control that provides rounded or rectangular corners to various views of the application. This control is also used to change rectangular images into circular images.

Gradient View

The Xamarin.Forms WPF control provides a gradient color background to various views of applications. The SfGradientView control supports linear and radial color gradients.

Cross-platform overview

Apart from WPF support, the following table shows you applicable cross-platform support. The table is up to date as of the 2020 Vol. 1 release. We still plan to extend our support to various other Xamarin.Forms controls.

Category	Control	Android	iOS	UWP	WPF	macOS
Grids	DataGrid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data Visualization	Barcode	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Charts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Circular Gauge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Diagram	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Digital Gauge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Linear Gauge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Maps	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Range Selector	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Sparkline	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Sunburst Chart	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	TreeMap	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Navigation	Navigation Drawer	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Radial Menu	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Rotator	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Tabbed View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Tree View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Editors	Rich Text Editor	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Autocomplete	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	CheckBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	ComboBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	DataForm	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Masked Entry	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Numeric Entry	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	NumericUpDown	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Picker	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Radio Button	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Range Slider	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Rating	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Segmented Control	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Calendars	Scheduler	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Calendar	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Buttons	Button	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Chips	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Switch	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Layout	Accordion	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Backdrop	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Border	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Cards	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Carousel View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Expander	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	ListView	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Parallax View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Popup	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Text Input Layout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Project Management	Kanban Board	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Notification	Badge View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Busy Indicator	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	ProgressBar	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	StepProgressBar	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	PullToRefresh	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Viewers/Editors	Image Editor	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	PDF Viewer	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Miscellaneous	Effects View	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
	Shimmer	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
	GradientView	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Avatar View	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

Conclusion

We hope you are excited about our Xamarin.Forms WPF control. If you think we should extend our Xamarin.Forms WPF support to any other control, then feel free to contact us through our support forum, Direct-Trac, or feedback portal.  Or leave a comment below and we will definitely consider your suggestion. We are happy to assist you!

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