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All New Dev Tools
Say goodbye to guesswork.
Avalonia Dev Tools gives you an immediate window into your running Avalonia app, inspect, edit, and refine your UI live, just like you always wished you could.
Installation
Follow these steps to configure your development environment for building applications with Avalonia
JetBrains Rider

Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio Code
.NET CLI
The best experience
The best cross-platform developer experience
JetBrains Rider has built-in support for Avalonia XAML starting in 2020.3, including first-class support for Avalonia-specific XAML features and custom code inspections.
There also exists an extension that enables live previewing of Avalonia XAML files.
Code Completion
Code Analysis
Code Navigiation
XAML Previewer
Videos
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