gerhobbelt / materialdesignextensions

Material Design Extensions is based on Material Design in XAML Toolkit to provide additional controls and features for WPF apps

Material Design Extensions

Material Design Extensions is based on Material Design in XAML Toolkit to provide additional controls and features for WPF apps. The controls might not be specified in the Material Design specification or would crash the scope of Material Design in XAML Toolkit.

NuGet

Install NuGet package. PM> Install-Package MaterialDesignExtensions

Assemblies are compiled for .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.5

Getting started

1. Create a WPF desktop application
2. Install Material Design Extensions via NuGet
3. Add the styles to your App.xaml (see App.xaml in the demo)
4. Add the namespace xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:MaterialDesignExtensions.Controls;assembly=MaterialDesignExtensions" to your XAML
5. You are ready to use the controls

Important notice

The configuration of Material Design Extensions v2.6.0 changed in order to enable changing the theme at runtime. Please change your configuration according to App.xaml of the demo.

Controls

Material Design Extensions features the following controls:

Control	Details	Status
Stepper	Custom Stepper control (specification)	Done
Oversized number spinner	Custom OversizedNumberSpinner control	Done
Grid list	Templates for ListBox to render as a grid list (specification)	Done
Open directory	Custom OpenDirectoryControl and OpenDirectoryDialog control	Done
Open file	Custom OpenFileControl and OpenFileDialog control	Done
Save file	Custom SaveFileControl and SaveFileDialog control	Done
Open multiple directories	Custom OpenMultipleDirectoriesControl and OpenMultipleDirectoriesDialog control	Done
Open multiple files	Custom OpenMultipleFilesControl and OpenMultipleFilesDialog control	Done
App bar	Custom AppBar control (specification)	Done
Persistent search	Custom PersistentSearch control (specification)	Done
Side navigation	Custom SideNavigation control (specification)	Done
Autocomplete	Custom Autocomplete control	Done
Text box suggestions	Custom TextBoxSuggestions control	Done
Tabs	Templates for TabControl (specification)	Done
Material window	Custom MaterialWindow control	Done

Screenshots

Horizontal stepper

Vertical stepper

Side navigation

Tabs

Material window and app bar

Open directory

Open file

Save file

Grid list

Persistent search

Autocomplete

Oversized number spinner

Documentation

You will find the API documentation on the website.

License

Material Design Extensions is licensed under the MIT license.