Material Design WPF Creator

If you want ta start WPF with Material Design this Project can help you. This WPF application create a Blank project with all you need to start learning WPF and ‘Material Design`. This Apps use a RadialMenu Thank for my friend [MVP] Damien Van Robaeys he always find great ideas ;-).

1. RadialMenu

If you want learn how to use this excellent library you read the blog post here

2. Project Setting

In this part you must set settings for your project :

• Name Project
• Author

The project name is a mandatory parameter because a folder will be create with this name in the futher step.

3. Windows Properties

In this part you must set settings for your Windows Apps :

• The Width
• The Height
• The Windows Title
• The rezise Mode
• The WindowsStartupLocation
• The Theme
• The Primary color
• The Accent color

All this settings me be set to have a complete project.

4. Create Project

This part is enable if all the settings are correct. The new project is create in the subFolder Project

In the Folder Apps1 you find your new Material Design Project.

And if open the Powershell File create in this example Apps1.ps1 you find the result :

#========================================================================
#
# Tool Name	: Apps1
# Author 	: JM2K69
#
#========================================================================

##Initialize######
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('presentationframework') | out-null
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('assembly\MahApps.Metro.dll')       			| out-null
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('assembly\System.Windows.Interactivity.dll') | out-null
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('assembly\MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf.dll') 			| out-null
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('assembly\MaterialDesignColors.dll')       			| out-null
[String]$ScriptDirectory = split-path $myinvocation.mycommand.path

function LoadXml ($global:filename)
{
    $XamlLoader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument)
    $XamlLoader.Load($filename)
    return $XamlLoader
}

# Load MainWindow
$XamlMainWindow=LoadXml("$ScriptDirectory\main.xaml")
$Reader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $XamlMainWindow)
$Form=[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($Reader)


$XamlMainWindow.SelectNodes("//*[@Name]") | %{
    try {Set-Variable -Name "$("WPF_"+$_.Name)" -Value $Form.FindName($_.Name) -ErrorAction Stop}
    catch{throw}
    }
 
Function Get-FormVariables{
if ($global:ReadmeDisplay -ne $true){Write-host "If you need to reference this display again, run Get-FormVariables" -ForegroundColor Yellow;$global:ReadmeDisplay=$true}
write-host "Found the following interactable elements from our form" -ForegroundColor Cyan
get-variable *WPF*
}
  #Get-FormVariables


$WPF_App_Close.add_Click({

   $Form.Close()

})

$Form.ShowDialog() | Out-Null

Becarefull dont touch the two file in the Folder Projects

• Blank.ps1
• Main.Xaml

If this file are modify the Apps Maetrial Design WPF creator will not run normally.

4. Run Project

With this button you can run also the current project in creation.

We find the Windows Title, the size, the windows can be rezise with a Grip control and one button to close your future Material Design WPF Apps.

5 How to Obtain

My Material Design WPF Creator is available on my Github repository here. Or you can run this command.

 git clone https://github.com/JM2K69/MaterialDesign_WPF_Creator.git

Thanks for reading.

Written by Jérôme Bezet-Torres @JM2K69.