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Loading a Xaml Resource in a WinUI Component
To load a XAML resource in a WinUI component, you can use the XamlReader.Load
method to parse and load the XAML content programmatically. Here's an example of how you can do it:
csharpusing Microsoft.UI.Xaml;
using Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls;
// Load XAML resource from a string
string xamlString = @"<Button Content=""Click me"" />";
UIElement element = (UIElement)XamlReader.Load(xamlString);
// Add the loaded element to a WinUI control
var container = new StackPanel();
container.Children.Add(element);
// Add the container to the visual tree
MyWinUIControl.Children.Add(container);
In the above example, we are loading a XAML resource from a string using XamlReader.Load
and casting the result to a UIElement
. Then, we create a container (in this case, a StackPanel
) and add the loaded element to it. Finally, we add the container to the visual tree of a WinUI control (MyWinUIControl
in this example).
You can also load XAML resources from external files using XamlReader.Load
by providing the file path instead of the XAML string.
Make sure to include the necessary using
statements for the WinUI namespaces (Microsoft.UI.Xaml
and Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls
) in your code file.
Note that this example assumes you are working with the WinUI 3 framework, which is the latest version of WinUI as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021. If you are using an older version of WinUI, the namespaces or APIs may vary.