Avalonia Extensions

Some extensions to quickly build Avalonia UI desktop applications without needing XAML. Built on top of Avalonia.Markup.Declarative.

Note that while using these extensions allow you to very quickly setup an application, they do somewhat push you into using Avalonia UI my way, rather than extending Avalonia UI generically.

NuGet packages

You can install the avalonia extensions via the NuGet package Mattias1.AvaloniaExtensions.

Example

This is a simple example application:

using AvaloniaExtensions;

AvaloniaExtensionsApp.Init().StartDesktopApp("Example app", () => new ReadmeComponent());

public class ReadmeComponent : CanvasComponentBase {
  protected override void InitializeControls() {
    AddTextBlock("A simple example application").TopLeftInPanel();
    AddButton("Cancel").BottomRightInPanel();
    AddButton("Ok").LeftOf();
  }
}

For a more elaborate example, you can take a look at the Example App source.

Setup development environment

You can build and run the example app with: cd ExampleApp/ && dotnet run

If you want to run with the simple theme to create a minimised version, you can run something like this: cd ExampleApp/ && dotnet run -c Release -p SIMPLE_THEME=true ; cd ../

Publish release

Create a github release with a tag named 'vx.y.z'.