.NET MAUI DataForm – Telerik UI for .NET MAUI

Overview

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataForm control helps you quickly and easily create forms for collecting or editing business data in both mobile and desktop applications from a single shared codebase. It features editors, commit modes, validation support, grouping, different layouts and more. Adding validation to your forms is easy, and you can take advantage of different commit modes to commit property values one by one or the whole form at the same time. You can make large forms more manageable thanks to the rich set of built-in editors and organize them by grouping UI elements. The flexible styling API enables you to customize most aspects of the DataForm control, including editors, groups, headers, control look and more.

Two-Way Data Binding

With two-way data binding, when the source properties are updated outside of the control, they are still kept in sync with the DataForm editors, enabling you to solve a wide range of scenarios.

Built-In Editors

The DataForm control provides a set of built-in editors for the available primitive types such as numeric, string, Boolean, enumerations, DateTime and TimeSpan. The control detects the object’s data types and automatically displays the appropriate editors. You can make the DataForm fit seamlessly into your application by customizing the appearance of its editors.

Validation

With built-in validation, you have full control over the data collected through the DataForm. According to your specific scenario, you can choose between three different validation modes. Additionally, you can also style and customize the validation and error messages.

Grouping

When the grouping feature is enabled, users can focus on the groups they need and ignore the items that are not relevant to them. The DataForm supports different group layouts that can be applied with ease via a single property.

Layouts

The DataForm supports different layouts that allow you to arrange the editors. You can use the predefined layouts or create a custom one.

VerticalStackLayout—Arranges the items of the RadDataForm in a vertical stack layout.
GridLayout—Arranges the items of the RadDataForm in a grid layout.
CustomLayout—Arranges the items of a DataForm in a custom layout through a layout template.

Commit (Editing) Modes

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataForm component for Telerik UI for .NET MAUI comes with three commit modes.

Explicit: Data is synchronized with the business entity by explicitly calling a method exposed by the control’s API.
LostFocus: Data is synchronized after the editor loses focus in favor of another editor. This is useful when asynchronously validating emails or usernames.
PropertyChanged: Data is synchronized with the business model on each property change.

Headers

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataForm component editors have group headers. You can apply various configurations such as setting the header text, length, position, image, display options and more. NET_MAUI_DataForm_Control_header_configuration_desktop__1.png

Styling

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataForm is especially flexible in terms of styling.

DataForm Styling—The control provides styling options for customizing its appearance. You can style the DataForm itself, as well as its editors, groups, error messages and validation messages.
Editors Styling—You can apply a style to each editor individually.
Group Styling—The control provides styling options for customizing the appearance of its group headers. You can apply a style to the whole header or only to the header label.
Error Message Styling—The DatePicker control for .NET MAUI provides styling options for customizing the appearance of the error message that appears when the entered data is invalid.
Validation Styling—You can easily customize the validation look by utilizing a couple of properties.
Header Styling—The control provides styling options for customizing the appearance of the header label or image above each editor.

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