Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox

9 Mar 20232 minutes to read

Syncfusion provides a Syncfusion Visual Studio Toolbox for the Xamarin platform to include the Syncfusion Xamarin (Xamarin.Forms) components in Xamarin application. It supports from Visual Studio 2017. The Syncfusion Xamarin toolbox allows you to add a Syncfusion Xamarin component code to the application effortlessly at the appropriate place in the XAML design file.

IMPORTANT

The Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox is available from Essential Studio 2018 Volume 2(v16.2.0.41).

Check whether the Xamarin Extensions - Syncfusion are installed or not in Visual Studio Extension Manager by navigating to Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Installed for Visual Studio 2017, and Extensions -> Manage Extensions -> Installed for Visual Studio 2019 by navigating to Extensions -> Manage Extensions -> Installed. If this extension not installed, please install the extension by follow the steps from the download and installation help topic.

Launching Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox from Syncfusion menu

Visual Studio 2019 and later

To launch the Syncfusion Toolbox from Visual Studio 2019 and later, click Extensions in Visual Studio menu and choose Syncfusion > Essential Studio for Xamarin > Launch Toolbox…

Syncfusion Xamarin Custom Toolbox via Syncfusion menu

Visual Studio 2017

To launch the Syncfusion Toolbox from Visual Studio 2017, click Syncfusion in Visual Studio menu and choose Essential Studio for Xamarin > Launch Toolbox…

Syncfusion Xamarin Custom Toolbox via Syncfusion menu

Launching Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox from View menu

To launch the Visual Studio Toolbox from Visual Studio menu in Visual Studio 2017 and later, click View > Other Windows > Syncfusion Toolbox in Visual Studio.

Syncfusion Xamarin Custom Toolbox menu

You can also find the Syncfusion Toolbox option by typing “Syncfusion Toolbox” into the Quick Launch search field (top right corner in Visual Studio).

Syncfusion Xamarin Custom Toolbox menu

Render Syncfusion components

  1. When you click the Syncfusion Toolbox window, the Syncfusion Toolbox wizard is launched, and Syncfusion components are enabled once you access your application’s designer page (XAML). Syncfusion components will not appear until open the appropriate design (XAML) file from the Xamarin shared/.NET Standard/PCL project. The rendering of the Syncfusion Xamarin components is made as simple as possible. All you need to do simply dragging and dropping the Syncfusion Xamarin component from the Syncfusion toolbox into the designer. The selected component’s code snippet and namespace will be added to the designer page(XAML) and the required Syncfusion Xamarin NuGet packages will be installed.

    Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox wizard

  2. Then, Syncfusion licensing registration required message box will be shown if you installed the trial setup or NuGet packages since Syncfusion introduced the licensing system from 2018 Volume 2 (v16.2.0.41) Essential Studio release. Navigate to the help topic, which is shown in the licensing message box to generate and register the Syncfusion license key to your project. Refer to this blog post for understanding the licensing changes introduced in Essential Studio.