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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

You're reading from   .NET MAUI for C# Developers Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631698
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What We Will Build: Forget Me Not 4. Chapter 3: XAML and Fluent C# 5. Chapter 4: MVVM and Controls 6. Chapter 5: Advanced Controls 7. Chapter 6: Layout 8. Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
9. Chapter 7: Understanding Navigation 10. Chapter 8: Storing and Retrieving Data 11. Chapter 9: Unit Testing 12. Part 3 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 10: Consuming REST Services 14. Chapter 11: Exploring Advanced Topics 15. Assessments 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Styles

Styles allow you to provide a uniform look to your controls by putting all the details in one place.

You create a style for a control type (for example, Button), and that style is applied to all controls of that type (refer to the Explicit versus implicit styles section). You can also base a style on an existing style, extending or modifying the original.

Styles can be stored on the page that uses the control, or they can be stored at the application level. In either case, they are created inside ResourceDictionary, typically declared at the top of the file. To make them available at the application level, just put them in App.xaml.

Where to put your styles

If you are only going to use the styles on objects on a single page, it makes sense to put the styles in the resources of that page. If you want to be able to reuse these styles on multiple pages, then you will want them in App.xaml.

As an example, let’s return to the Login page and create ResourceDictionary...

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