[Bug] Grid.Children missing Add convenience methods

Description

Error:

error CS1501: No overload for method 'Add' takes 3 arguments

Code:

var grid = new Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Layout2.GridLayout
{
    RowSpacing = 0,
    ColumnSpacing = 0,
    RowDefinitions =
    {
        new RowDefinition(),
        new RowDefinition(),
        new RowDefinition()
    },
    ColumnDefinitions =
    {
        new ColumnDefinition(),
        new ColumnDefinition(),
        new ColumnDefinition()
    }
};

grid.Children.Add(new BoxView
{
    Color = Color.DarkSlateBlue
}, 2, 1);

I see now that you cannot do RowDefinitions/ColumnDefinitions that way anymore? And you cannot add views to Children.

grid.Add(new BoxView
            {
                Color = Color.LightSkyBlue
            });

That ^ also doesn’t allow 3 args.

Basic Information

• Version with issue: Preview 3

Workaround

Use the Add methods off Grid instead of Grid.Children.

[breenbob]

You can workaround this for now by calling SetRow/Column explicitly:

grid.SetRow((IView)view1, 0);
grid.SetColumn((IView)view1, 0);

grid.SetRow((IView)view2, 0);
grid.SetColumn((IView)view2, 1);

grid.Children.Add(view1);
grid.Children.Add(view2);

The cast is necessary because of this:

[jfversluis]

The API docs are wrong at this point. There were taken from Forms and not updated for .NET MAUI yet.

It seems that we have a replacement for the 3 argument overload. It’s not done on the Grid.Children anymore, but you can do it on Grid directly. So: Grid.Add(new Label(), 1, 1);.

The 5 arguments overload is provided in a PR here and we’re discussing if this is something we want to take in as it seems a bit of a confusing API.