I am thinking about porting my app made in WPF to Avalonia. My first requirement is to enable click-through transparency (same as <Window Background="{x:Null}" WindowStyle="None&q...

I have created a project using Avalonia UI MVVM C# project. and I am very new to this. I am using the Community Toolkit MVVM package, not the Reactive UI package. There are two pages, "MainWin...

I am hoping to port an Electron app over to Avalonia. The app currently uses Paper.js to draw and manage interactions with complex polygons. Looking into Avalonia, I noticed it uses Skia, which see...

I have been trying various techniques to try and get the button label text center aligned. When I look at the button in the Avalonia DevTools inpspector, I can see the the AccessText TextAlignment ...

.Net Conf is currently underway and I learnt about something called Avalonia UI. (I use .NET MAUI) After doing some research, Avalonia UI was primarily a desktop UI framework that now support...

I am writing a small app for as a school project and I cannot figure out how can I change the window icon. I found the "Icon" property of Window, but I have no clue how it works, as I hav...

I am playing with Avalonia and I am trying to show a message box equivalent to WinForms' MessageBox.Show(). I have found the GitHub issue that is requesting an API for that but I am wondering what ...

I am new to Avalonia/ WPF, Xaml and desktop development in general so please forgive and clarify any related misunderstandings I demonstrate. I will continue to study available documentation but I ...

I'm looking for the right approach to declare design-time ViewModel for an Avalonia window. Some samples suggest d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance viewModels:LoginViewModel, IsDesignTimeCreatab...

I'm trying to figure out how to do animations in Avalonia. I have a path with 4 linesegements and I want to animate each point to a new position. In WPF I have done it like this: public void Anima...

In WPF, you can detect whether it is showing in design mode using DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode What's the equivalent in Avalonia UI

I'm trying out styles in avalonia and most works, except for pseudoclasses, they just get ignored. I have created a window and all styles are in there and I have created a user control (with a butt...

In GDI+ one can draw directly onto the canvas (create an in-memory bitmap and do whatever needs to be done there). I need the same for Avalonia for 'custom controls' and I was informed that that is...

I am trying to use ReactiveUI along with Avalonia. Due to initialization order in Avalonia 0.10 preview following code fails: class ViewModel : IActivatableViewModel { public ViewModel(){ this.Wh...

I'm working with OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog and OpenFolderDialog in an Avalonia application. One requirement is to set the title to a certain string. I achieved this for OpenFileDialog and Save...

I'm implementing a UserControl which should display a list of settings: public class SettingPropertyItem { string Name { get; } Type ValueType { get; } object Value { get; set; } } Based on eac...

I need to create a simple app to draw a graph network onto a canvas. As I use .net core it seems that one of the best solutions could be Avalonia + Skia backend. The problem is that I haven't found...

I am creating an app using avalonia which has some UI stuff in another assembly because of re-usability. Within this additional assembly, i want to have a Resource.xml file which is referenced by t...

In WPF it was a bit more confusing how to bind colors, like background color to a viewmodel property. Are there other ways to bind Colors in Avalonia ? Or is this example a good way ? Avalonia ...

Selectors look very similar to CSS. What selectors are available in Avalonia? What is the meaning of this selector for example: <Style Selector="ListBoxItem:selected /template/ ContentPresenter...