winui-design

Search samples before writing XAML

This skill ships winui-search.exe alongside this SKILL.md (≈100 WinUI Gallery controls, every Windows Community Toolkit scenario, curated platform-integration patterns; each result returns full XAML + C# + pitfall notes). Front-load lookups, then code — don't interleave.

.\winui-search.exe search "<feature 1>" "<feature 2>" ...   # batch one focused query per feature (BM25 likes focused phrasing)
.\winui-search.exe get <id 1> <id 2> ...                     # batch up to 3 IDs — full XAML + C# + pitfall notes
.\winui-search.exe list                                       # browse all patterns (heavy — prefer search)
.\winui-search.exe update                                     # force cache refresh

Search covers controls and platform integration (file pickers, Share, JumpList, drag-drop, app lifecycle, dialogs) — front-load all lookups before writing XAML; don't interleave search with coding.

App-shape anchors

Pick the closest shipping app silhouette before laying out a page: