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Avalonia's enhanced XAML editing and previewing functionality.
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Avalonia for Visual Studio

Avalonia is a cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems such as Windows via .NET Framework and .NET Core, Linux via Xorg and macOS.

Avalonia for Visual Studio is now part of Avalonia Accelerate. For a starter guide see our documentation.

Please use our GitHub repository for issues and discussions: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaVS/issues

Release Notes

11.11.0

  • Improved performance
  • Improved time to syntax highlighting
  • Many bugfixes

11.10.7

  • Fix error in login dialog under older Visual Studio versions
  • Improve performance when a XAML file has a lot of errors
  • Completion fixes related to xmlns prefixes
  • Don't invoke spurious XAML completions
  • Use the latest icon
  • Support KeyGesture
  • Respect x:Class with Binding.ElementName
  • Fix x:TypeArguments on root element
  • Self bindings in Setter should refer to target type
  • Correctly feature-check null-conditional operator in bindings
  • Fix assignment checks with VB projects

11.10.6

  • Support Visual Studio 17.10 and 17.12
  • Fix date in EULA
  • Allow punctuation in XML prefixes
  • Suggest inherited properties when typed name follows a prefix
  • Don't duplicate xmlns prefix for markup extensions
  • Strip unwanted line indentation from quick info comments
  • Fix ArgumentOutOfBounds exception with malformed XAML
  • Allow attached "Classes." syntax in setters
  • Use CancellationToken when parsing XAML
  • Support multiple TextDecoration values
  • Don't offer completions when typing an xmlns prefix
  • Support IAddChild

11.10.5

  • Fix crash

11.10.4

  • New rewritten version of the Avalonia Visual Studio extension
  • Enhanced IntelliSense
  • Improved Quick Info
  • x:DataType Quick Info
  • Enhanced Error Handling and Reporting
  • Go To Definition Support
  • Improved Code Fixes
  • Enhanced Event Handler Generation
  • Automatic XAML Namespace Imports
  • Whitespace Settings Compliance
  • Editor Layout Persistence
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