XAMLFrameworkControls.md

Last Updated 11 April 2022 | License CC BY-SA 4.0

XAML Framework Controls

This document lists supported controls for each XAML framework excluding some primitives and shapes (Ellipse, Rect, etc.). It also describes some of the differences in implemenation or usage where appropriate.

The following frameworks are included so far:

• Avalonia
• UWP (with the WinUI 2.x library), also implicitly includes the Uno Platform
• WPF

Controls

As WPF is the first XAML framework, it occurs first and all others are listed alphabetically in their own column. The Uno Platform generally supports all controls in UWP/WinUI3 and therefore does not need its own column.

The initial list of supported Avalonia controls was taken from Comparison of Avalonia with WPF and UWP also Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (itself originally based on UWPvsWPF.md).

Note that (WCT Version) indicates a version of the control exists for UWP in the Windows Community Toolkit.

WPF	Avalonia	UWP / Uno Platform
🔲	🔲	✅ AppBarButton
🔲	🔲	✅ AppBarSeparator
🔲	🔲	✅ AppBarToggleButton
🔲	🔲	✅ AnimatedVisualPlayer (WinUI 2.1)
🔲	✅ AutoCompleteBox	✅ AutoSuggestBox
✅ Border	✅ Border	✅ Border
🔲	🔲	✅ BreadcrumbBar (WinUI 2.6)
✅ BulletDecorator	✅ BulletDecorator	🔲
✅ Button	✅ Button	✅ Button
✅ DatePicker	✅ CalendarDatePicker	✅ CalendarDatePicker
✅ Calendar	✅ Calendar	✅ CalendarView
✅ Canvas	✅ Canvas	✅ Canvas
🔲	🔲	✅ CaptureElement
✅ CheckBox	✅ CheckBox	✅ CheckBox
🔲	🔲	✅ ColorPicker
✅ ComboBox	✅ ComboBox	✅ ComboBox
✅ ToolBar	🔲	✅ CommandBar
🔲	🔲	✅ CommandBarFlyout (WinUI 2.0)
✅ ContentControl	✅ ContentControl	✅ ContentControl
✅ ContentPresenter	✅ ContentPresenter	✅ ContentPresenter
✅ DataGrid	✅ DataGrid	🔲 (WCT Version)
🔲	✅ DatePicker	✅ DatePicker
🔲	✅ DatePickerFlyout	✅ DatePickerFlyout
✅ DockPanel	✅ DockPanel	🔲 WCT Version
✅ DocumentViewer	🔲	🔲
🔲	✅ DropDownButton	✅ DropDownButton (WinUI 2.0)
✅ Expander	✅ Expander	✅ Expander (WinUI 2.6)
🔲	✅ Carousel	✅ FlipView
✅ FlowDocumentPageViewer	🔲	🔲
✅ FlowDocumentReader	🔲	🔲
✅ FlowDocumentScrollViewer	🔲	🔲
🔲	✅ Flyout	✅ Flyout
✅ Frame	🔲	✅ Frame
✅ Grid	✅ Grid	✅ Grid
✅ GridSplitter	✅ GridSplitter	🔲 (WCT Version)
🔲	🔲	✅ GridView
✅ GroupBox	🔲	🔲
🔲	🔲	✅ Hub
🔲	🔲	✅ HubSection
🔲	🔲	✅ HyperlinkButton
✅ Image	✅ Image	✅ Image
🔲	🔲	✅ InfoBar (WinUI 2.5)
🔲	🔲	✅ InkCanvas (N/A in Uno)
🔲	🔲	✅ InkToolbar (N/A in Uno)
✅ ItemsControl	✅ ItemsControl	✅ ItemsControl
🔲	✅ ItemsPresenter	✅ ItemsPresenter
🔲	✅ ItemsRepeater	✅ ItemsRepeater (WinUI 2.1)
✅ Label	✅ Label	🔲
✅ ListBox	✅ ListBox	✅ ListBox
✅ ListView	🔲	✅ ListView (N/A in Uno)
🔲	🔲	✅ MapControl
🔲	🔲	✅ MediaElement
🔲	🔲	✅ MediaTransportControls
✅ Menu	✅ Menu	✅ MenuBar (WinUI 2.0)
✅ MenuItem	✅ MenuItem	✅ MenuBarItem (WinUI 2.0)
🔲	✅ MenuFlyout	✅ MenuFlyout
✅ ContextMenu	✅ ContextMenu	🔲
🔲	🔲	✅ NavigationView
🔲	✅ NumericUpDown	✅ NumberBox (WinUI 2.3)
✅ Panel	✅ Panel	🔲
🔲	🔲	✅ ParallaxView
✅ PasswordBox	✅ TextBox (PasswordChar)	✅ PasswordBox
🔲	🔲	✅ PersonPicture
🔲	🔲	✅ PipsPager (WinUI 2.6)
🔲	🔲	✅ Pivot
🔲	🔲	✅ PivotItem
✅ Popup	✅ Popup	✅ Popup
✅ PrintDialog	🔲	🔲
✅ ProgressBar	✅ ProgressBar	✅ ProgressBar
🔲	🔲	✅ ProgressRing
🔲	🔲	✅ PullToRefresh
✅ RadioButton	✅ RadioButton	✅ RadioButton
🔲	🔲	✅ RadioButtons (WinUI 2.3)
🔲	🔲	✅ RatingControl
✅ Rectangle	✅ Rectangle	✅ Rectangle
🔲	🔲	✅ RefreshContainer (WinUI 2.0)
🔲	✅ RelativePanel	✅ RelativePanel
✅ RepeatButton	✅ RepeatButton	✅ RepeatButton
✅ RichTextBox	🔲	✅ RichEditBox
🔲	🔲	✅ RichTextBlock
🔲	🔲	✅ RichTextBlockOverflow
✅ ScrollBar	✅ ScrollBar	✅ ScrollBar
✅ ScrollContentPresenter	✅ ScrollContentPresenter	✅ ScrollContentPresenter
✅ ScrollViewer	✅ ScrollViewer	✅ ScrollViewer
🔲	🔲	✅ SearchBox
🔲	🔲	✅ SemanticZoom
✅ Separator	✅ Separator	🔲
✅ Slider	✅ Slider	✅ Slider
🔲	✅ SplitButton	✅ SplitButton (WinUI 2.0)
🔲	✅ SplitView	✅ SplitView
✅ StackPanel	✅ StackPanel	✅ StackPanel
✅ StatusBar	🔲	🔲
🔲	🔲	✅ SwipeControl (WinUI 2.0)
✅ TabControl	✅ TabControl	✅ TabView (WinUI 2.2)
✅ TabItem	✅ TabItem	✅ TabViewItem (WinUI 2.2)
🔲	🔲	✅ TeachingTip (WinUI 2.1)
✅ TextBlock	✅ TextBlock	✅ TextBlock
✅ TextBox	✅ TextBox	✅ TextBox
🔲	✅ TimePicker	✅ TimePicker
🔲	✅ TimePickerFlyout	✅ TimePickerFlyout
✅ ToggleButton	✅ ToggleButton	✅ ToggleButton
🔲	✅ ToggleSplitButton	✅ ToggleSplitButton (WinUI 2.0)
🔲	✅ ToggleSwitch	✅ ToggleSwitch
✅ ToolTip	✅ ToolTip	✅ ToolTip
✅ TreeView	✅ TreeView	✅ TreeView
🔲	🔲	✅ TwoPaneView
🔲	🔲	✅ VariableSizedWrapGrid
✅ Viewbox	✅ Viewbox	✅ Viewbox
🔲	🔲	✅ WebView
✅ WrapPanel	✅ WrapPanel	🔲 (WCT Version)
✅ Window	✅ Window	🔲
Icons
🔲	🔲	✅ AnimatedIcon (WinUI 2.6)
🔲	🔲	✅ BitmapIcon
🔲	🔲	✅ FontIcon
🔲	🔲	✅ ImageIcon (WinUI 2.6)
🔲	✅ PathIcon	✅ PathIcon

Control Differences

1. The UWP DatePicker is different from WPF's DatePicker. The WPF DatePicker is closer to the UWP CalendarDatePicker in functionality as they both have a drop-down calendar. A picker to select a date without a calendar view does not exist in WPF.
2. The DataGrid in both Avalonia and UWP's Windows Community Toolkit is based on the Silverlight version of the control -- not the full-featured WPF version. As such, WPF's DataGrid is more powerful in certain areas. In addition, the Windows Community Toolkit version of the control has many bugs that Microsoft announced they will not fix. Avalonia, however, makes an attempt to fix these issues.
3. UWP's TabView is designed for top-level document navigation only. It is not always a good replacement for TabControl in WPF. Instead, UWP's Pivot control is sometimes used for tab functionality.
4. RadioButtons is a container to easily create groups of individual RadioButton controls (with accessiblity improvements, etc.)
5. ProgressRing was updated to use Lottie animations in WinUI Library v2.5-v2.6
6. WPF's ContextMenu was generalized and replaced by MenuFlyout in UWP. Avalonia; however, still supports both.

License

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