MAUI Toolkit for VS Code

MAUI Toolkit is a set of tools designed to improve the development experience for .NET MAUI projects in Visual Studio Code.

It enhances the default tooling by adding:

• better XAML editing experience (coloring, readability)
• quick file generation via familiar right-click context menus
• productivity features inspired by full Visual Studio

✨ Features

• 🧱 Create MAUI components directly from Explorer

  • ContentPage.xaml
  • ContentView.xaml

• ⚡ Fast access via right-click → MAUI Tools → Add

• 🎨 Improved XAML readability (coloring & formatting)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Build the extension:

   npm run watch
   

4. Run the extension:

   • Press F5 in VS Code

A sample MAUI project will open automatically for testing.

🗺️ Roadmap

• [x] Color XAML

• [x] Create basic ContentPage and ContentView

  • [x] XAML version
  • [ ] C# version

• [ ] Extract UI into reusable components (e.g. select part of XAML → extract to ContentView + generate BindableProperties)

• a lot more

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to open issues or suggest features

🛠️ Status

🚧 Early development — core features are being actively built.