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

11.11.1

• Fix completions in middle of element names
• Syntax highlight resource URLs
• Fix OnPlatform elements reporting an error
• Don't offer completions when tabbing (or spacing) within an element
• Determine the markup extension return type by inspecting the ProvideValue methods on the type
• Prevent classifier out of bounds exception.
• Handle TemplateBinding.Converter
• Fix NRE being thrown for invalid XML comments

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