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Mica
October 27, 2024 Avalonia Styles XAML MicaMake 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
July 15, 2024 AvaloniaHere’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
June 29, 2024 Avalonia Attached Properties Dynamic Resources StylesI 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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Markup Extensions and Styles
June 9, 2024 Avalonia StylesCaveats when using Markup Extensions and Styles.
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Animations
April 6, 2024 Avalonia Styles AnimationsFirst steps with Animations in Avalonia.
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Markup Extensions
March 10, 2024 Avalonia XAMLGive your XAML a massive boost with markup extension.
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Avalonia's Dispatcher
February 28, 2024 Avalonia Dispatcher Threading PerformanceLessons learned when using Avalonia’s dispatcher and how to avoid choppy progress animations when scheduling jobs on the UI thread.
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Taming the Label Control
February 9, 2024 Avalonia Label Accessibility StylesThere’s a Label control in Avalonia but it’s weird.
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Bitmaps
January 23, 2024 Avalonia Images Bitmaps WinFormsAre you using Bitmaps in your application? Make sure you keep an eye on your memory.
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Development Hardware and Tools
January 7, 2024 Avalonia General HardwareWhat am I using for development in terms of hardware and software (as of Jan, 2024).
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Why Avalonia
January 3, 2024 Avalonia General AccessibilityMy personal view of things and why I think Avalonia is a great UI framework.
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Avalonia's FontManager
January 2, 2024 Avalonia Fonts ComboBoxThis post is about using Avalonia’s FontManager class.
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ARM64 Gotchas
December 30, 2023 Avalonia General Hardware ARM64 Parallels PerformancemacOS on Apple Silicon runs great. It’s fast, it’s very reliable, it’s quiet and it’s beautiful. Windows 11 for ARM using Parallels on Apple Silicon also runs great, fast and reliable. There are still gotchas…
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A Fresh Start
December 28, 2023 General Blog CommunityThis is the first blog post on an “old” blog. It’s a fresh start. I got rid of all the old content and started over. Now focusing on something different: more C# and more UI - specifically AvaloniaUI.
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