https://davidmarchbanks.dev/en/tags/custom-control/Recent content in Custom Control on David MarchbanksHugoen-usThu, 23 May 2019 01:06:18 +0000https://davidmarchbanks.dev/en/posts/write-your-own-custom-controls-for-xamarin-forms/Thu, 23 May 2019 01:06:18 +0000https://davidmarchbanks.dev/en/posts/write-your-own-custom-controls-for-xamarin-forms/<p>So why would you need to write a custom control for Xamarin? Does it have a purpose other than wrapping native controls that don&rsquo;t exist in Xamarin? Why yes, it does serve a good purpose. I often will write a component to avoid having to copy and paste XAML repeatedly.</p> <h2 id="how-do-we-create-one">How do we create one?</h2> <p>I am going to assume you already have a project started in this post. I often create a directory/namespace called Controls in my PCL for this purpose. In any case, right click in your solution in Visual Studio&rsquo;s PCL project and click Add, and then New Item.</p>