Is there a way to make custom controls without namespace constraints?

[nasterhe]

Custom controls are typically used:

namespace MySoft;
public class MyControl:ItemsControl
{

 xmlns:local="using:MySoft"
...

<local:MyControl>
</local:MyControl>

Is there a way to use it directly

<MyControl>
</MyControl>

without adding namespace.

I've tried putting my class directly under the namespace Avalonia.Controls, but it doesn't work.

[msneijders]

You can use Avalonia.Metadata.XmlnsDefinitionAttribute. Something like this in a cs file (often called 'CommonNamespace.cs' what I have seen:

[assembly: XmlnsDefinition("https://github.com/avaloniaui", "MySoft")]

Given you have xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui" marked in your xaml file.

[nasterhe]

Great, thank you very much.