A modern WPF application that demonstrates how to integrate Material Design in XAML Toolkit to create visually appealing, user-friendly, and responsive desktop applications.
This project serves as a starting point for developers who want to build WPF applications with Material Design principles. It leverages the Material Design in XAML Toolkit to enhance the aesthetics and usability of WPF applications with clean, modern UI components.
- Implement Material Design principles in a WPF application.
- Showcase responsive layouts and modern UI elements.
- Provide reusable components and templates for common WPF controls.
- Serve as a boilerplate for building scalable WPF projects with a focus on design.
- Fully integrated Material Design in XAML Toolkit.
- Pre-styled controls (buttons, textboxes, combo boxes, etc.) with Material Design themes.
- Light and Dark Mode support.
- Customizable color palettes and typography.
- Responsive layouts that adapt to various screen sizes.
- Included examples of dialogs, navigation drawers, and snackbars.
- Windows OS with Visual Studio installed.
- .NET Framework version 4.8 or higher is required.
- Basic knowledge of WPF and XAML.
Follow these steps to set up the project:
- Uninstall/re-install any existing conflicting packages:
Uninstall-Package MaterialDesignThemes.MahApps -Force Uninstall-Package MaterialDesignThemes -Force Uninstall-Package MaterialDesignColors -Force Uninstall-Package MahApps.Metro -Force Uninstall-Package ControlzEx -Force Uninstall-Package Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf -Force Install-Package MahApps.Metro -Version 2.4.9 Install-Package ControlzEx -Version 4.3.0 Install-Package MaterialDesignColors -Version 2.0.0 Install-Package MaterialDesignThemes -Version 4.0.0 Install-Package MaterialDesignThemes.MahApps -Version 0.1.6 Install-Package Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf -Version 1.1.39