Tools > Options > XamRight > Settings gives the ability to customize how you want to use XamRight.
The link at the top, Show product overview tour, can walk you through XamRight features in case you missed some when you first installed it. The table below is a short guide to the options shown on the page.
Enable XamRight | Allows XamRight to be temporarily disabled. After using XamRight for a while, turn it off to see what it was like before! |
Xaml Binding, Style, and markup warnings | Diagnoses bugs in Xaml markup: incorrect view model properties, syntax errors, invalid Style, and more |
General reliability and code correctness | Finds bugs in interactions between C# and Xaml code, such as event definitions |
Layout usage guidance | Detailed best practice guidance to optimize your use of page layout attributes on Xaml elements |
Light and Dark Mode Theming | Identifies poor color contrast when switching between Light and Dark mode |
Accessibility | Finds opportunities to improve accessibility (a11y) of your app using appropriate Xaml features |
Verbose informational/advisory warnings | Identifies warnings that are typically harmless, but rarely causes subtle, difficult to find bugs |
Use design-time BindingContext/DataContext | An incorrectly declared design-time context will cause bugs at runtime, even though everything is fine in VS. This allows you to ensure contexts are correct without looking at design-type assertions. |
Prefer MVVM style code | When refactoring your code, controls if the default is to prefer code-behind C# or view model C#. |
Other XamRight settings pages allow you to create hotkey mappings for your favorite XamRight commands, or to provide customization for refactorings.
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