lyalindotcom/xamldesigntimesamples

Sample project that demonstrates design-time data capabilities for WPF .NET Core & UWP developers added to Visual Studio 2019 in Update 16.7

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xamldesigntimesamples's Issues

UWP Project needs a Tab control to enable us to organize the various groups of controls to demo

The UWP sample needs to feature all the controls that make sense to illustrate d: design-time data. To do this effectively in the WPF app I used the native tab control to organize the different controls together. Unfortunately a tab control isn't available in UWP out-of-the-box but the Windows Community Toolkit has one so want to explore adding it.

Tabs control would include these tabs:

• Buttons (Button, Combobox, Checkbox, Slider, etc.)
• Lists (ListView, ListBox, GridView, etc.)
• Progress (ProgressBar, ProgressRing, etc.)
• Text Input (TextBox, RichTextBox, PasswordBox, etc.)
• Other (TimePicker, Image, PersonPicture, etc.)

All ideas welcome, but above is just a starting point.

For this issue to be successful:

• Need to first validate that the tab control within the XAML Designer can switch tabs without running the app, as the one difference for this sample app compared to normal ones is its not meant to add value when running but when in the XAML designer
• Then add a tab control with at least the above section, no work on the actual control implementation is needed yet, other issues will cover that

Move this sample into Microsoft organization

The current plan is to move this sample into the Microsoft organization for long-term hosting, for now though we'll work on it here.

Create a series of issues that the community can pickup to help improve the design-time data

Multiple members of the UWP/WPF community have agreed to help improve the sample app designed to demonstrate how d: design-time data can be used to visualize various controls and scenarios inside of the XAML designer for both UWP and WPF apps.

The issues I am working to create include:

1. Create a tab control within the UWP app to help us organize content from the WinUI 2.x control set
2. Enhance the UWP app by adding as many of the controls as many sense to visualize in the designers
3. Update the WPF sample to include a simple ViewModel implementation so that if the sample app is run, different data is shown in the running app vs. the design-time view
4. Update the UWP sample to include a simple ViewModel implementation so that if the sample app is run, different data is shown in the running app vs. the design-time view (this should happen after #2 is completed)

Bonus:

5. Add another WPF sample that demonstrates d:DataContext implementation using an ViewModel that demonstrates the alternative approach for design-time data
6. Add another WPF sample that demonstrates d:DataContext implementation using an ViewModel that demonstrates the alternative approach for design-time data

Infrastructure:

• Add automated builds to confirm builds don't break (but packaging this app for publish is not useful here)