External Configurations

A valid XAML Styler configuration is a JSON file with one or more configuration options specified. Below is a complete external configuration that contains the default values. Set the External Configuration File option to the file path containing the JSON configuration. This path can be a local or network location.

####Default Configuration####

{
    "AttributesTolerance": 2,
    "KeepFirstAttributeOnSameLine": false,
    "MaxAttributeCharatersPerLine": 0,
    "MaxAttributesPerLine": 1,
    "NewlineExemptionElements": "RadialGradientBrush, GradientStop, LinearGradientBrush, ScaleTransfom, SkewTransform, RotateTransform, TranslateTransform, Trigger, Condition, Setter",
    "SeparateByGroups": false,
    "AttributeIndentation": 0,
    "AttributeIndentationStyle": 1,
    "RemoveDesignTimeReferences":  false,
    "EnableAttributeReordering": true,
    "AttributeOrderingRuleGroups": [
        "x:Class",
        "xmlns, xmlns:x",
        "xmlns:*",
        "x:Key, Key, x:Name, Name, x:Uid, Uid, Title",
        "Grid.Row, Grid.RowSpan, Grid.Column, Grid.ColumnSpan, Canvas.Left, Canvas.Top, Canvas.Right, Canvas.Bottom",
        "Width, Height, MinWidth, MinHeight, MaxWidth, MaxHeight",
        "Margin, Padding, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, HorizontalContentAlignment, VerticalContentAlignment, Panel.ZIndex",
        "*:*, *",
        "PageSource, PageIndex, Offset, Color, TargetName, Property, Value, StartPoint, EndPoint",
        "mc:Ignorable, d:IsDataSource, d:LayoutOverrides, d:IsStaticText",
        "Storyboard.*, From, To, Duration"
    ],
    "FirstLineAttributes": "",
    "OrderAttributesByName": true,
    "PutEndingBracketOnNewLine": false,
    "RemoveEndingTagOfEmptyElement": true,
    "SpaceBeforeClosingSlash": true,
    "RootElementLineBreakRule": 0,
    "ReorderVSM": 2,
    "ReorderGridChildren": false,
    "ReorderCanvasChildren": false,
    "ReorderSetters": 0,
    "FormatMarkupExtension": true,
    "NoNewLineMarkupExtensions": "x:Bind, Binding",
    "ThicknessSeparator": 2,
    "ThicknessAttributes": "Margin, Padding, BorderThickness, ThumbnailClipMargin",
    "FormatOnSave": true,
    "CommentPadding": 2,
}

####Default Configuration Options####

• AttributeIndentationStyle
• Mixed = 0
• Spaces = 1
• RootElementLineBreakRule
• Default = 0
• Always = 1
• Never = 2
• ReorderVSM
• None = 0
• First = 1
• Last = 2
• ReorderSetters
• None = 0
• Property = 1
• TargetName = 2
• TargetNameThenProperty = 3
• ThicknessSeparator
• None = 0
• Space = 1
• Comma = 2