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

Thank you very much IdoT, It did work for me, but after adding some lines. As this will help in making templates/custom controls/sub forms, easily added/shared across Xamarin.Forms.

Here is my full work based on your suggestion, so it can be used as is with others:

HeaderNavigationBar.xaml

As you can see, added:

xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"

and in the HeaderNavigationBar.cs, it was declared as StackLayout:

HeaderNavigationBar.cs

using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace App9.MVC.Views
{
    public partial class HeaderNavigationBar : StackLayout
    {
        public HeaderNavigationBar()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}

then for the page that will hold it/show it:

MainView.xaml

As you can notice, the namespace has the full path, in the MainView:

xmlns:common="clr-namespace:App9.MVC.Views;assembly=App9"

Also, you can notice that there is a button called External 1, this will also show with the Internal buttons, as the control is a StackLayout, so it can handle adding more controls.

Screenshot:

Also for Page inside another Page:

• https://github.com/twintechs/TwinTechsFormsLib
• http://blog.twintechs.com/advanced-xamarin-forms-techniques-for-flexible-and-performant-cross-platform-apps-part-5-page-in-page-embedding

Again thanks goes to IdoT.