Composition Ring Spinner

Keeping the UI thread free is always the best option. Unfortunately, there are situations where this is not entirely possible. Here’s a small progress spinner which keeps animating when the UI thread is busy.

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DevTools - Two is better than one

Avalonia Accelerate customers get a great, new DevTool but what if you want to use the old one as well? You can actually have both.

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Validation Error Indicator

How to show unobtrusive data validation errors which do not mess up your layout? The adorner layer may be helpful in this case.

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More Mica

Updated sample app to support custom accent colors and system accent colors using the free Actipro theme for Avalonia.

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Mica

Make your Avalonia app look like a ’native’ Windows 11 style app supporting the ‘Mica’ background and accent color border. Sample app included!

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Object Lifecycle

Here’s the order of events when dealing with Avalonia UI components. I constantly forget it and often need it. To my future self…

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Central Style Switcher

I needed a way to enable or disable animations by applying and overriding animation-related styles of various controls during runtime. This is what I came up with.

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