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Avalonia's Dispatcher

February 28, 2024

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

Taming the Label Control

February 9, 2024

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

Bitmaps

January 23, 2024

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

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

Why Avalonia

January 3, 2024

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

Avalonia's FontManager

January 2, 2024

This post is about using Avalonia’s FontManager class.

ARM64 Gotchas

December 30, 2023

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…

A Fresh Start

December 28, 2023

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.