Attached Properties
Explore how to use attached properties in .NET MAUI to enhance UI elements without modifying their classes. Understand creating custom attached properties, adding accessors, and consuming them in XAML views to extend application functionality.
Attached properties in .NET MAUI are used to apply additional properties to the elements that haven't been defined by their own classes. These property types allow us to extend the functionality of the elements without having to modify them.
To examine how attached properties work, we'll use the project setup below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="colorPrimary">#512BD4</color>
<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#2B0B98</color>
<color name="colorAccent">#2B0B98</color>
</resources>Attached properties basics
In XAML, attached properties are represented by complex attributes that have sub-attributes. In the setup above, we have some examples of these in the MainPage.xaml file.
On line 14, we define the SemanticProperties.Description property of an ...