Avalonia AXAML Viewer Visual Studio Extension (Based on Legacy)

Yes, the same Avalonia GUI Previewer and syntax highlighter that you've grown to love under the MIT license, free and open source!

The fork preserves the legacy Avalonia Visual Studio Extension at git hash, 7bf4941, providing only basic features.

For the latest ground-breaking features, use the official AvaloniaVS extension.

This fork is intended for those who need a simple visual designer for Avalonia. For instance, those creating simple apps or sandboxing Avalonia. We encourage you to support the official tooling.

This project is an independent derivative of Avalonia technology and is not endorsed by AvaloniaUI OÜ.

Avalonia for Visual Studio

This repository is used to generate Avalonia Visual Studio extensions. Avalonia Visual Studio extension adds such capabilities to your Visual Studio:

• XAML code completion.
• XAML previewer.
• It bundles Avalonia templates in your Visual Studio.
• Icons for axaml files.

If you are interested in VSCode extension, visit https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaVSCode.

Updates

• 2025-11-23 - Unhiding the share "Anonymous Usage Analytics" checkbox. Disabled on the backend
• 2025-11-20 - Better auto-completion