I have been looking for a long time now but still haven't found a way to create WPF like UserControls for cross-platform Xamarin Forms. Can this even be done? I am using Xamarin with Visual Studio 2013.
Here is a XAML example. Just to add you can have any base visual element. E.g. a Grid, StackLayout, Image etc.
<Grid xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="Mobile.Control.UserControl">
</Grid>
Here is the code behind
namespace Mobile.Control
{
public partial class UserControl : Grid
{
public UserControl()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
}
To use it, go to your page and implement the namespace
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:control="clr-namespace:Mobile.Control;assembly=Mobile"
x:Class="Mobile.View.MyPage">
And then in the page
<control:UserControl />