Discussion: Use XAML Styler for consistency?

[michael-hawker]

Discussion: Use XAML Styler for consistency?

XAML Styler is a tool to help make XAML consistent by applying a common set of style rules to XAML (i.e. VSM should be on top, or Grid Row/Columns should come first, etc...)

It'd be great if the repo could adopt a set of guidance for XAML styling, encoded in a XAML Styler settings file. This would ensure:

• XAML templates are consistent across the repo
• XAML templates are easier to read (as they are consistently organized)
• Other projects could adopt the same settings for consistency with platform styles

The last point would be especially helpful for libraries and app developers which copy and re-template controls, as if there's a future update to a style, since the ordering of everything could be enforced to be consistent (between WinUI and an app developer adopting the same style settings), then this would make it easier to compare the styles for differences to update between versions.

Related Links

• Control Styles should be named #3735
• Documentation: Add Style Migration Guides #2464
• Discussion: Add a new Style.Resources property to simplify Lightweight Styling #3939
• Proposal: Improve the XAML styling system to target template attributes and states #279

[StephenLPeters]

Love this, @karenbtlai was also interested.

[beervoley]

that would be awesome :)

[StephenLPeters]

@ranjeshj FYI