Aryan MVVM WPF Template

My MVVM WPF Projects Template for Visual Studio

How to use?

1. Open solution in Visual Studio
2. In the menu, go to Project > Export Template...
3. Name your template and done!

Description

Animation

These files are used for adding custom extension animations to the project. There are already some animations defined in this file (for example: HideUsingLinearAnimation())

App.xaml

All resources are defined here. If you added any ResourceDictionary file, you shoud address it here as a merged dictionary.

Configuration.cs

This is used for saving config of your app to a file.
For using this feature, simply define a CLR-Property and call SaveSettingsToFile().
For loading configurations, call LoadSettingsFromFile().
Config will be loaded to App.CurrentApp.Configuration.
Configuration is a partial class that has three sub-files containing Fields, HardOperations and Constants separately.

Extensions.cs

Define your general extension methods here.

Assets

This is the base folder for you app's assets. It contains Colors, Fonts, Images, Photos and Strings by default.

Assets/Colors

Define any color in SolidColors.xaml and GradientColors.xaml, and their brushes in Brushes/SolidColorBrushes.xaml and Brushes/GradientColorBrushes.xaml. Then, you can use them anywhere in your project.

Assets/Fonts

Simply address your fonts in Fonts.xaml and use them anywhere in you project

Assets/Images

Define vector based icons here (Geometric Paths, FontAwesome, ...). You can also put png, jpeg, png, ... files here.

Assets/WinRT

Resources related to Windows Runtime. For example you can define assets for Windows 10 start menu tile image of you app. There are already two 150x150 and 70x70 images in this folder. App's Visual manifest located in root of the project loads this images when pinning your app in start menu.

Assets/Photos

Put you large photos here.

Assets/Strings

You can define strings here. ApplicationStrings.xaml is a pre-defined file for strings that is related to the application (example: Application Name). You can create other ResourceDictionary files here (for example: AlertMessages.xaml), but don't forget to put the new file address in the App.xaml.

Assets/Behaviors

You can define Behaviors from System.Windows.Interactivity here.

Models

Define application models here.

ViewModels

Define application view models here. A template file with implemented INotifyPropertyChanged interface is already defined as an example.

Views

This section is for View (User Interface) of your WPF Application.

Views/Controls

Define your custom controls here.

Views/Pages

Page section for multiple pages applications.

Views/PartialViews

You can define Partial Views here. If you have a view that you want to use it in multiple places, simply define it here and use it anywhere you want. Menues are the best examples.

Structure

│   App.config  
│   App.xaml  
│   App.xaml.cs    
│   MainWindow.xaml  
│   MainWindow.xaml.cs  
│   [ProjectName].visualelementsmanifest.xml
│  
├───Assets  
│   ├───Colors  
│   │   │   GradientColors.xaml  
│   │   │   SolidColors.xaml  
│   │   │  
│   │   └───Brushes  
│   │           GradientColorBrushes.xaml  
│   │           SolidColorBrushes.xaml  
│   │  
│   ├───Fonts  
│   │       Fonts.xaml  
│   │  
│   ├───Images  
│   │       MenuIcons.xaml  
│   │  
│   ├───Photos  
│   │       Pattern_CreamPixles.png  
│   │  
│   ├───Strings
│   │       ApplicationStrings.xaml  
│   │  
│   └───WinRT  
│           App Logo 70x70.png
│           App Logo 150x150.png
│  
├───Models  
│       SampleModel.cs  
│  
├───Engines  
│       CalculationEngine.cs  
│  
├───Extensions  
│       Extensions.cs  
│  
├───Views  
│   ├───Controls  
│   │   └───WaveCircle  
│   │           WaveCircle.xaml  
│   │           WaveCircle.xaml.cs  
│   │  
│   ├───Pages  
│   │       SamplePage.xaml  
│   │       SamplePage.xaml.cs  
│   │  
│   ├───PartialViews  
│   │   └───Menu  
│   │           MainMenu.xaml  
│   │  
│   ├───Styles  
│   │       GeneralStyles.xaml  
│   │  
│   ├───Templates  
│   │       GeneralTemplates.xaml  
│   │  
│   └───Behaviors  
│           BlinkBehavior.xaml  
│  
└───ViewModels  
        SampleViewModel.cs