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Markup Extensions

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Give your XAML a massive boost with markup extension.

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March 10, 2024

Avalonia's Dispatcher

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Lessons learned when using Avalonia’s dispatcher and how to avoid choppy progress animations when scheduling jobs on the UI thread.

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February 28, 2024

Taming the Label Control

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There’s a Label control in Avalonia but it’s weird.

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February 9, 2024

Bitmaps

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Are you using Bitmaps in your application? Make sure you keep an eye on your memory.

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January 23, 2024

Development Hardware and Tools

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What am I using for development in terms of hardware and software (as of Jan, 2024).

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January 7, 2024

Why Avalonia

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My personal view of things and why I think Avalonia is a great UI framework.

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January 3, 2024

Avalonia's FontManager

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This post is about using Avalonia’s FontManager class.

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January 2, 2024

ARM64 Gotchas

#General#Avalonia

macOS 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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December 30, 2023

A Fresh Start

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This 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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December 28, 2023