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Comprehensive and easy to use Material Design theme and control library for the Windows desktop (WPF).

• Material Design styles for all major WPF Framework controls
• Additional controls to support the theme, including Multi Action Button, Cards, Dialogs, Clock
• Easy configuration of palette (at designand runtime), according toGoogle's guidelines
• FullMaterial Design Icons icon pack
• Easy transition effects
• Compatible withDragablz,MahApps
• Demo applications included in the source project

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This quick guide assumes you have already created a WPF project and are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022.

• Install the toolkit through the visual NuGet package manager in Visual Studio or use the following command:

Install-Package MaterialDesignThemes

• Alter yourApp.xaml

<Applicationx:Class="Example.App"xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"xmlns:materialDesign="http://materialdesigninxaml.net/winfx/xaml/themes"StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">    <Application.Resources>        <ResourceDictionary>            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>                <materialDesign:BundledThemeBaseTheme="Light"PrimaryColor="DeepPurple"SecondaryColor="Lime" />                <ResourceDictionarySource="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesign2.Defaults.xaml" />             </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>        </ResourceDictionary>    </Application.Resources></Application>

• If you want to target Material Design 3, alter theResourceDictionary line in the snippet above to useMaterialDesign3.Defaults.xaml.

• Alter yourMainWindow.xaml

<Window [...]Style="{StaticResource MaterialDesignWindow}"  [...] >

To build the project, following is required:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
• .NET desktop development workload

This repository also contains 3 different demo applications:

• MaterialDesignDemo - Reference WPF app with Material Design 2 styling, this contains all controls and is a recommended tool when developing apps with this library
• MaterialDesign3Demo - Reference WPF app with Material Design 3 styling, under development
• MahAppsDragablzDemo - Demo app for combining with Dragablz and MahApps

• Keboo/MaterialDesign.Examples
• Motion List

• How to increase rendering performance?

Before contributing code read theContribution Guidelines

• GitHub issues are for bugs and feature requests.
• For questions, help and chat in general, please use theGitHub discussion tab or theDiscord server.
• Stack Overflow tag:material-design-in-xaml

Want to say thanks? 🙏🏻

• Hit the ⭐ star ⭐ button
• If you'd like to make a very much appreciated financial donation please visitopen collective

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

• James Willock - Founder of the project
• Kevin Bost - Maintainer of the repository
• Snalty - Designer of the logo
• Icon pack sourced fromMaterial Design Icons
• ControlzEx - Library used in MaterialDesignInXAML
• Ignace Maes - WhoseMaterial Skin project inspired the original material design theme forDragablz, which in turn led James Willock start this project
• Material Design Extensions - A community repository based on this library that provides additional controls and features.
• Contributors - A big thank you to all the contributors of the project!

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