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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

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}"
 [...] >

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

• Keboo/MaterialDesign.Examples
• Motion List

• How to increase rendering performance?

Before contributing code read the Contribution Guidelines

• GitHub issues are for bugs and feature requests.
• For questions, help and chat in general, please use the GitHub discussion tab or the Discord server.
• Stack Overflow tag: material-design-in-xaml

Want to say thanks? 🙏🏻

• Hit the ⭐ star ⭐ button
• If you'd like to make a very much appreciated financial donation please visit open collective

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

• James Willock Twitter - Founder of the project
• Kevin Bost Twitter - Maintainer of the repository
• Snalty Twitter - Designer of the logo
• Icon pack sourced from Material Design Icons
• ControlzEx - Library used in MaterialDesignInXAML
• Ignace Maes - Whose Material Skin project inspired the original material design theme for Dragablz, which in turn led James Willock start this project
• Material Design Extensions - A community repository based on this library that provides additional controls and features.
• Contributors - A big thank you to all the contributors of the project!

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