In this article we will discuss how to get WPF Material Design. For more details about material design follow this link http://materialdesigninxaml.net/. Please follow to get the latest article on https://jayanttripathy.com/.
What is Material Design?
Material Design is an Android-oriented design language created by Google, supporting onscreen touch experiences via cue-rich features and natural motions that mimic real-world objects. Designers optimize users’ experience with 3D effects, realistic lighting and animation features in immersive, platform-consistent GUIs.
In this article we are not covering the Web/Mobility part. We focus on how to implement material design in WPF application.
Creating WPF application
Let’s create the WPF application in visual studio and then we implement the material design into it.
Open the Package Manager and Search “MaterialDesign Themes” and install the package.
Open the “App.xaml” and add the “MaterialDesign” resource file as below.
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Light.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Defaults.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Primary/MaterialDesignColor.Blue.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Accent/MaterialDesignColor.Purple.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>Now open the “MainWindow.xaml” and implement the material design themes
xmlns:materialDesign="http://materialdesigninxaml.net/winfx/xaml/themes"
Now add the Material controls like below.
<materialDesign:Card
Width="400" Height="340"
Padding="19" Margin="0 20 0 0">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock
Margin="16 16 12 8"
FontSize="16">
Add Employee Information
</TextBlock>
<Separator
Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignLightSeparator}" Background="LightGray" />
<StackPanel Margin="0 20 0 0">
<TextBox
materialDesign:HintAssist.Hint="Name"
Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignFloatingHintTextBox}" />
<ComboBox
materialDesign:HintAssist.Hint="Designation"
IsEditable="True" Margin="0 20 0 0"
Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignFloatingHintComboBox}">
<ComboBoxItem
IsSelected="True">
Software Engineer
</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>
HR
</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>
Finance
</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>
Accountant
</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>
<TextBox
materialDesign:HintAssist.Hint="Phone" Margin="0 15 0 0"
Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignFloatingHintTextBox}" />
<Separator
Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignLightSeparator}" />
<materialDesign:DialogHost CloseOnClickAway="True">
<materialDesign:DialogHost.DialogContent>
<Grid Margin="20">
<TextBlock Text="The Information to be Saved" />
</Grid>
</materialDesign:DialogHost.DialogContent>
<Button Command="{x:Static materialDesign:DialogHost.OpenDialogCommand}" Content="Save Information"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="50,0,0,0"/>
</materialDesign:DialogHost>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</materialDesign:Card>Code Explanation
We take “MaterialDesign Card” with example of adding Employee Info.
Textbox is consider for Emp. Name and Phone , ComboBox item is designation.
Button is taken and when Click on the button then Confirmation message will show.
For confirmation box we will take “materialDesign:DialogHost”
Now save all and run the application, the output should like below.
Conclusion
So far this article we will get knowledge on how to create and use WPF Material Design.