XamlCSS.UWP 2.2.1-pre2

This is a prerelease version of XamlCSS.UWP. 
dotnet add package XamlCSS.UWP --version 2.2.1-pre2                

                    
                

            
NuGet\Install-Package XamlCSS.UWP -Version 2.2.1-pre2
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="XamlCSS.UWP" Version="2.2.1-pre2" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
paket add XamlCSS.UWP --version 2.2.1-pre2                

                    
                

            
#r "nuget: XamlCSS.UWP, 2.2.1-pre2"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
// Install XamlCSS.UWP as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=XamlCSS.UWP&version=2.2.1-pre2&prerelease

// Install XamlCSS.UWP as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=XamlCSS.UWP&version=2.2.1-pre2&prerelease

XamlCSS

Style Xaml-applications with CSS - get it for WPF, Xamarin.Forms or UWP and start right here!

Why XamlCSS For XAML?

Concise

Styling with (s)css gives a more concise declaration of your styles. XamlCSS even supports a subset of SCSS features like selector nesting, css-variables and mixins. This enables you to make your declarations even more concise.

Freely Combine Styles

Other than vanilla Xaml-styles, css allows you to freely combine styles - no BasedOn restriction. Even better, this is done for you behind the curtains!
And if you really want to combine styles yourself use @extend.

Semantic Meaning

Semantic meaning can be conveyed, i.e. is your ui-element important, a warning, a header or a sub-header? This is achieved by using css-classes.

Based On View-Hierarchy

Css takes into account where inside your view-hierarchy your element gets added. No need to manually assigning a style.
It also detects that an element was added or removed.
In combination with semantic selectors you can style a button differently just because it is in a warning dialog. And if you want to create a dark, a light and a custom theme, just switch the css-class-name on your root view-element and all elements update themselves automatically.

Support For Xaml-Features

You can use markup-extensions and triggers in your (s)css.

In css you cannot declare an instance of an object as you can do in xaml. A Storyboard for example must be declared as usual in a ResourceDictionary but then can be referenced in css with a markup-extension.

Designer Support

XamlCSS builds on top of the native Xaml-Style implementations, so it works with the WPF and UWP designer. For Xamarin.Forms there is LiveXAML.

Supported platforms

Supported Features

  • CSS selectors
  • Remove and reapply styles
  • Detect new elements and apply matching styles
  • Support Binding * (except vanilla UWP)
  • Support StaticResource *
  • Support DynamicResource * (except vanilla UWP)
  • Set simple values like Foreground, FontSize, FontStyle,... by CSS
  • Triggers
  • Multiple StyleSheets
  • Nested selectors (like Sass)
  • Css-variables
  • Import of other css-files
  • Mixins

Not (yet) supported

  • Visual State Manager

For more information look at the provided test-apps in the solution to see how to initialize and use XamlCSS.

*) Breaking change in binding syntax in 2.0.0: instead of {Binding value} you now write #Binding value or "{Binding value}"

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
Universal Windows Platform uap was computed.  uap10.0 is compatible. 
Compatible target framework(s)
Included target framework(s) (in package)
Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

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Version Downloads Last updated
2.2.1-pre2 385 5/1/2020
2.2.1-pre1 420 4/4/2020
2.2.0 915 2/10/2019
2.2.0-pre7 663 9/5/2018
2.2.0-pre6 638 8/31/2018
2.2.0-pre5 804 5/12/2018
2.2.0-pre4 741 5/6/2018
2.2.0-pre3 857 5/1/2018
2.2.0-pre2 839 4/30/2018
2.2.0-pre1 804 2/11/2018
2.1.0 1,029 12/9/2017
2.0.1 972 7/23/2017
2.0.0 915 5/21/2017
2.0.0-pre1 777 2/9/2017
1.0.6 994 1/22/2017
1.0.5 930 1/21/2017
1.0.4 1,000 12/18/2016
1.0.3 953 11/29/2016
1.0.2 948 11/29/2016
1.0.1 945 11/22/2016
0.9.0-beta-1 792 9/10/2016
0.9.0-alpha-5 788 6/27/2016
0.9.0-alpha-4 802 6/26/2016
0.9.0-alpha-3 798 6/24/2016
0.9.0-alpha-2 796 6/17/2016
0.9.0-alpha 798 5/22/2016
0.8.0 999 5/21/2016
0.8.0-beta-3 808 5/18/2016
0.8.0-beta 1,212 5/16/2016

2.2.1-pre2
         - #101: Re-Adding Removed Element With Triggers Slows Down Application
         
         2.2.1-pre1
         - #95: XamlCSS cannot find IsEnabled on Button in Xamarin.Forms
         - #97: New Style Property Values not Applied to Menus
         - #98: Invalid Trigger-Element Combinations Crash Application

         2.2.0
         - #82: VisualTree/LogicalTree Match-Optimization Marks Not-Traversed Nodes as Traversed
         - #84: WPF, UWP: :visual-tree Pseudo Selector Not Matching Correctly On Parent Elements

         2.2.0-pre7
         - Live edit: '#' should not crash application
         - Tree-node-matching performance: if general parent selector already matched don't evaluate for elements down the tree

         2.2.0-pre6
         - Attached property "ApplyStyleImmediately"
         - Performance improvement (IsInLogicalTree/IsInVisualTree)

         2.2.0-pre5
         - #78 WPF: Children Of Frame Don't See Parent
         - #79 Nth-Selectors With Negative Factor Are Not Handled Correctly

         2.2.0-pre4
         - Major performance enhancements
         - #76 Support Attribute Selectors With Change-Tracking

         2.2.0-pre3
         - #72 StyleSheet Should Update If SingleBaseStyleSheet Changes
         - Removed Measure calls used for exact performance profiling
         - Remove missed debug messages

         2.2.0-pre2
         - #69 Support Selectors With Visual Tree Elements Like ScrollBar: :visualtree selector, logical tree and visual tree
         - #70 ItemsControl Children Are Not Styled
         - #71 Increase Performance Of Applying Styles: new tree traversing (performance, optimization)
         - #73 Support AOT By Setting Preserve Attribute
         - Wrong universal-selector if not first selector-fragment
         - Pseudo-selector not parsed if combined with another selector (comma separated)

         2.2.0-pre1
         - #52 Attributes Cannot Be Matched - One-Time Matching
         - #53 Asterisk Selector Has Wrong Specificity
         - #54 String Value Throws Exception In Property- And DataTriggers
         - #59 Preview-Friendly Basing StyleSheets On Others
         - #62 Variable Cannot Reference Another Variable
         - #64 Support Xml-Namespace mapping
         - #65 Remove AngleSharp Dependency

         2.1.0
         - #6 UWP Designer: Css Selectors don't always select the correct Elements
         - #37 UWP: Loading CSS-File from Embedded Resource Embedded in EXE-File Fails
         - #39 Ampersand Could Be Anywhere in Selector
         - #40 Support @extend
         - #43 Wrong Selector Generated When Using Ampersand In The Middle Of Selector
         - #47 UWP, Xamarin.Forms Update Loop: Massive Performance Problems If Errors In CSS
         - #48 Support Parsing Floating Point Numbers Without Leading Zero
         - #49 Support Import Of Css Stored In Application.Resources
         - #50 Css-Parser: Parser Hangs If Document Only Contains "At" Character

         2.0.1
         - #36 Fixed "XamlCSS does not support unicode escapes"

         2.0.0
         - #29 Support comments
         - #30 Support enter/exit trigger actions
         - #31 Better error information
         - Rewritten tokenizer, css-parser (performance, maintainability)
         - Better markup-extension parsing
         - Fixed same selector property overrides
         - Support namespaces in markup-extensions

         2.0.0-pre1
         - #11 Nested selectors, css-variables
         - #23 Css imports
         - #24 Sass-like mixins
         - #28 Fixed bracket parsing

         1.0.6
         - #20 Performance: Selectors are parsed too often

         1.0.5
         - #19 Decimal Number not parsed correctly
         - #18 Class not properly parsed in grouped selectors
         - #13 CSS-Parser: Broken String-Literal Handling

         1.0.4
         - Css namespacing support fixed
         - Flickering when control added to view

         1.0.3
         - Fixed NullReferenceException

         1.0.2
         - Xaml-Designer Preview support
         - CssParser Tokenizer fixed
         - Better Logical-/Visual-Tree handling

         1.0.1
         - Define stylesheet in Xaml-files with css text
         - Fixed selector specificity

         1.0.0
         - Performance/memory improvements: Caching dom-elements, dom-children,...
         - Batch-Rendering
         - Define stylesheet in Xaml-files with css text
         - Fixed selector specificity

         0.9.0-beta-1
         - Added better css-quotes support
         - Support modal pages
         - fixed bool value support
         - Fixed VisualTreeCell.Include="true"
         - Performance improvement
         - AngleSharp 0.9.8

         0.9.0-alpha-5
         - Fix partial updates: not finding all parents while executing css-parser

         0.9.0-alpha-2
         - fixed NullReferenceException

         0.9.0-alpha
         - experimental support for MarkupExtensions (only StaticResource)

         0.8.0
         - Support for attached properties
         - Support for CSS-namespaces

         0.8.0-beta-3:
         Fixed UWP nuget-package