How to create Carousel sample in Xamarin.Forms.UWP platform

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Carousel control allows navigating through image data in an interactive way so that they can be viewed or selected. Also, provides various customization options for its item arrangements. We can get the view of Carousel in Xamarin.Forms UWP platform from any one of the following ways,

Using CarouselItem
Using ItemTemplate

The below illustrates how to create the carousel control in Xamarin.Forms UWP platforms.

Needed assemblies:

For getting the view of carousel control, need to add the following assemblies in both PCL and UWP in Xamarin.

Project

Assemblies required

PCL

pcl\Syncfusion.SfCarousel.XForms.dll

UWP

uwp\Syncfusion.SfCarousel.UWP.dll
uwp\Syncfusion.SfCarousel.XForms.dll
uwp\Syncfusion.SfCarousel.XForms.UWP.dll

Create a carousel control using CarouselItem

C#

public partial class KBSolutionPage : ContentPage
{
public KBSolutionPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    SfCarousel sfCarousel = new SfCarousel();
    sfCarousel.ItemWidth = 170;
    sfCarousel.ItemHeight = 250;
    ObservableCollection<SfCarouselItem> collectionOfItems = new ObservableCollection<SfCarouselItem>();
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images1.png" });
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images2.png" });
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images3.png" });
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images4.png" });
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images5.png" });
    collectionOfItems.Add(new SfCarouselItem() { ImageName = "images6.png" });
    sfCarousel.DataSource = collectionOfItems;
    this.Content = sfCarousel;
}
}

Create a carousel control using ItemTemplate

C#

public partial class KBSolutionPage : ContentPage
{
public KBSolutionPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    SfCarousel sfCarousel = new SfCarousel();
    sfCarousel.ItemWidth = 170;
    sfCarousel.ItemHeight = 250;
    var carouselModel = new List<CarouselModel> {
            new CarouselModel ("image1.png"),
            new CarouselModel ("image2.png"),
            new CarouselModel ("image3.png"),
            new CarouselModel ("image4.png"),
            new CarouselModel ("image5.png")
        };
    var carouselModelDataTemplate = new DataTemplate(() =>
    {
        var grid = new Grid();
        var nameLabel = new Image();
        nameLabel.SetBinding(Image.SourceProperty, "Image");
        grid.Children.Add(nameLabel);
        return grid;
    });
    sfCarousel.ItemTemplate = carouselModelDataTemplate;
    sfCarousel.DataSource = carouselModel;
    this.Content = sfCarousel;
}
}
public class CarouselModel
{
public CarouselModel(string imagestr)
{
    Image = imagestr;
}
private string _image;
public string Image
{
    get { return _image; }
    set { _image = value; }
}
}