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About this skill

Implementing AI AssistView in .NET MAUI

The Syncfusion .NET MAUI AI AssistView (SfAIAssistView) is a comprehensive control for integrating AI services into .NET MAUI applications. It provides a user-friendly conversational interface with built-in support for requests, responses, suggestions, conversation history, multiple agents, toast notifications, and extensive customization options.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Integrate AI chat interfaces in .NET MAUI applications
  • Display conversational UI with user requests and AI responses
  • Implement AI-powered assistants with suggestion prompts
  • Create chat-based interactions with conversation history
  • Build intelligent applications that interact with AI services
  • Customize chat appearance with templates, themes, and styling
  • Handle user interactions through events, commands, and data binding
  • Manage conversation flows with headers, toolbars, and empty states
  • Implement localization for multi-language AI chat applications
  • Work with multiple AI agents for specialized assistant experiences
  • Show contextual toast notifications for non-blocking feedback
  • Design responsive AI interfaces with .NET MAUI cross-platform support

Common Scenarios:

  • Customer support chatbots, AI assistants, help desk interfaces
  • Conversational AI applications, virtual agents, interactive assistants
  • Chat-based content generation, Q&A applications, knowledge bases
  • Personal productivity assistants, note-taking with AI, writing helpers
  • Educational platforms with AI tutors, interactive learning interfaces
  • Any real-time conversational UI with AI-powered responses

Component Overview

SfAIAssistView is a comprehensive, feature-rich conversational control that:

  • Displays AI-powered chat interfaces with user requests and AI responses
  • Supports multiple content types (text, images, hyperlinks, cards, attachments)
  • Provides flexible data binding with observable collections and MVVM patterns
  • Enables customizable request/response display with templates and selectors
  • Supports multiple AI agents with selected-agent customization
  • Supports toast notifications for success, warning, and error feedback
  • Includes smart suggestion system (header, response-specific, footer prompts)
  • Offers toolbar and chat mode management with temporary sessions
  • Maintains conversation history with timestamps and interaction tracking
  • Handles rich user interactions (tapping, long-press, context menus)
  • Provides customizable message input editor with file attachments and actions
  • Supports structured prompt composition, disclaimer messages, and time break separators
  • Features auto-scrolling, scroll-to-bottom button, voice input, and audio playback
  • Supports comprehensive styling, theming, and platform-specific effects

Documentation and Navigation Guide

Getting Started

📄 Read: references/getting-started.md

  • NuGet package installation and setup
  • Handler registration in MauiProgram.cs
  • XAML namespace import and control initialization
  • ViewModel setup with observable collections
  • First request/response cycle implementation
  • Common setup issues and troubleshooting

Agents

📄 Read: references/agents.md

  • Multiple AI agents within a single chat experience
  • Agent collection, selection, and editor @ lookup
  • Selected agent visibility and template customization

Items and Data Binding

📄 Read: references/items-and-data-binding.md

  • Item properties (text, profile, timestamp, error messages)
  • Item types (text, hyperlinks, images, cards, attachments)
  • Item interaction events and commands
  • Error response display and handling
  • Custom item view templates
  • Custom model binding and converters
  • Context menus for requests and responses

Suggestions

📄 Read: references/suggestions.md

  • Header-level suggestion prompts
  • Response-specific suggestions
  • Footer suggestions above the editor
  • Suggestion selection events and commands
  • Cancellation and submission behaviors

Header

📄 Read: references/header.md

  • Header visibility and customization
  • Header text and template configuration
  • Displaying suggestions in headers

Toolbar

📄 Read: references/toolbar.md

  • Toolbar visibility and title customization
  • New Chat button implementation
  • Temporary chat mode support
  • Chat mode switching events

History

📄 Read: references/history.md

  • Enabling conversation history
  • Conversation item structure (title, timestamp, messages, pin state)
  • Filtering, pinning, renaming, and deleting conversations
  • History interaction handling and restore behavior

Events and Commands

📄 Read: references/events.md

  • Item tapped and long-pressed events
  • Request events and command handling
  • Footer action commands (copy, retry, rating)

Editor and Attachments

📄 Read: references/editor-and-attachments.md

  • Custom editor layouts and templates
  • Expandable request editor for long prompts
  • Editing previous requests
  • File attachment support, limits, and image preview
  • Attachment button modes and action buttons configuration
  • Send button customization

Templates and Content Types

📄 Read: references/templates-and-content.md

  • Request and response item templates
  • Template selectors for dynamic templates
  • Full control template customization
  • Custom chat rendering implementation

Scrolling

📄 Read: references/scrolling.md

  • Auto-scroll to latest messages
  • Auto-scroll behavior for latest request or response
  • Scroll-to-bottom button functionality
  • Button appearance customization

Prompt Composition

📄 Read: references/prompt-composition.md

  • System, context, and part-based prompt composition
  • Deterministic composition order and filtering
  • Prompt composing event inspection

Prompt Library

📄 Read: references/prompt-library.md

  • Browse, search, and pick from a catalog of predefined prompts
  • SfPromptLibrary.ItemsSource and the PromptItem model
  • Handle selection via the PromptSelected event or PromptSelectedCommand

Disclaimer Message

📄 Read: references/disclaimer-message.md

  • Disclaimer text below the editor
  • Visibility and footer spacing behavior

Time Break Separators

📄 Read: references/time-break-separators.md

  • Date-based message grouping
  • Smart Today / Yesterday / weekday labels
  • Custom time break template and styling

Voice Support

📄 Read: references/voice-support.md

  • Microphone button voice input
  • Speech recognition and editor text injection
  • Response audio playback controls
  • Platform permissions and fallback behavior

Toast Notifications

📄 Read: references/toast-notifications.md

  • Non-blocking success, warning, and error feedback

Advanced Topics

📄 Read: references/advanced-topics.md

  • Text selection support
  • Stop responding functionality
  • Performance optimization

AutoComplete Suggestions

📄 Read: references/autocomplete-suggestions.md

  • AutoComplete suggestions while typing
  • Prefix and timing configuration
  • Suggestion data binding
  • Selection handling and behaviors
  • Custom suggestion templates
  • State monitoring and server integration

Styling

📄 Read: references/styling.md

  • Theme key application
  • Style keys for all UI elements
  • Customizing request/response appearance
  • Platform-specific styling effects

Customization

📄 Read: references/customization.md

  • Empty state views
  • Localization (RESX)
  • Right-to-left (RTL) support
  • Disabling image previews via AllowImagePreview (default true)
  • Platform-specific effects (iOS liquid glass)