maui collectionview-windows.instructions.md

Project instructions for the Windows implementation of .NET MAUI CollectionView, a cross-platform control that displays a scrollable list or grid of items. They explain how it maps to Windows UI components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing Windows CollectionView item handling, data-source notifications, selection modes, layouts, dimensions, or cross-platform behavior.
Why use it?
They help preserve selection, scrolling, native styling, layout behavior, and correct updates when the item list changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/dotnet/maui/collectionview-windows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet/maui

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 333 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Sonnet 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
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Measured 2d ago against content hash 098a6dc123bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maui collectionview-windows.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/instructions/collectionview-windows.instructions.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

CollectionView — Windows (Items/ Handler)

Items/ is the ONLY Windows CollectionView implementation. Items2/ has NO Windows code.

WinUI ListView/ItemsRepeater Patterns

  • Preserve WinUI XAML styles applied via native theming — clearing a MAUI property must restore the style-applied value, not a hardcoded default
  • double.NaN is the WinUI convention for unconstrained dimensions — do not confuse with MAUI's double.PositiveInfinity
  • Use DispatcherQueue.TryEnqueue for deferred UI thread work — do not use Dispatcher.BeginInvoke

Data Source and Change Notifications

  • Handle all ObservableCollection change actions (Add, Remove, Replace, Move, Reset) with range-scoped updates
  • Avoid full source refresh (NotifyDataSetChanged equivalent) — it kills selection state and scroll position
  • Selection mode changes must propagate correctly to the native SelectionMode property

Layout Configuration

  • ItemsLayout changes require reconfiguration of the underlying panel (e.g., ItemsWrapGrid, ItemsStackPanel)
  • Verify that ItemsLayout.Span for grid layouts maps correctly to WinUI's MaximumRowsOrColumns

Cross-Platform Consistency

  • Default values for control properties must produce the same visual result as Android and iOS
  • Event firing order (selection changed, scrolled) should match other platforms for the same user interaction
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 333 tokens per session scan A 098a6dc123bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maui collectionview-windows.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dotnet/maui (23,317 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 333 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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