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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 design and runtime), according to Google's guidelines
  • Full Material Design Icons icon pack
  • Easy transition effects
  • Compatible with Dragablz, MahApps
  • Demo applications included in the source project

See screenshots

Table of contents

Getting started

Note

See the full starting guide for more in-depth information.

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 your App.xaml
<Application 
  x: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:BundledTheme BaseTheme="Light" PrimaryColor="DeepPurple" SecondaryColor="Lime" />

                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesign2.Defaults.xaml" /> 
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>
  • If you want to target Material Design 3, alter the ResourceDictionary line in the snippet above to use MaterialDesign3.Defaults.xaml.

  • Alter your MainWindow.xaml

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

Building the source

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

Screenshots

Warning

The screenshots below are taken from the Material Design 2 demo app. It is possible that these are out of date. Run the demo app from latest source to see the latest version.

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Screenshot of WPF Material Design 2 demo application home page Buttons Toggles Fields ComboBoxes Palette Color Tools Pickers Icons Cards Menus and Toolbars Progress Bars Dialogs Lists Tree View Sliders Chips Typography Group Box Snackbars Elevation

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Contributing

Before contributing code read the Contribution Guidelines

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