Xamarin.Forms: Can I embed one ContentPage or ContentView into another ContentPage

Question

I have multiple ContentPage xaml files in my Xamarin project. I want to embed a shared piece of xaml into each ContentPage. There is nothing particularly special about the

Answer 1

You can take the parent child of your ContentPage (for example, a StackLayout that wraps all the children), put it in an external xaml file, and then include that component in each one of your ContentPages.

The external xaml file will be a StackLayout type, rather than a ContentPage.

Edit - added a code sample:

Let's add a header StackLayout: we add a code behind class:

public partial class HeaderNavigationBar 
{
    public HeaderNavigationBar()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

Then add the XAML code:

And finally, in the page where you want to reuse your component - add this reference:.