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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.

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

More Mica

September 6, 2025

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

Mica

October 27, 2024

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

Object Lifecycle

July 15, 2024

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

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.

Caveats when using Markup Extensions and Styles.

Lifecycle

May 1, 2024

Lifecycle and Weak References

Animations

April 6, 2024

First steps with Animations in Avalonia.

Markup Extensions

March 10, 2024

Give your XAML a massive boost with markup extension.