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UI Architecture

The UI code is distributed between two projects: PowerToys.Settings and Settings.UI. PowerToys.Settings is a Windows App Sdk .net Unpackaged application. It contains the views for base navigation and modules. Parent display window and corresponding code is present in MainWindow.xaml. Fig 1 provides a description of the UI controls hierarchy and each of the controls have been summarized below :

  • ShellPage.xaml is a WinUI control, consisting of a side navigation panel with an icon for each module. Clicking on a module icon loads the corresponding setting.json file and displays the data in the UI.

Settings UI architecture Fig 1: UI Architecture for settingsv2

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