What's new

Previewer improvements

As part of our ongoing work to improve the previewer, we've added a number of fixes, including:

• Faster preview loading
• More responsive zooming
• Fixed the issue where the preview doesn't load
• Improved exception handling

Document Outline

Users of the Complete edition can now view the structure of an AXAML file in the Document Outline Window. It includes full search capabilities, and clicking an item highlights it in the editor.

Toolbox

Users of the Complete edition will now see the Toolbox populated with controls from the Avalonia framework, any referenced packages or projects, and any controls defined in the project.

These items can be dragged onto the editor window. Support for dragging from the Toolbox to other locations will be coming in a future update.

Formatting improvements

We now support "Format on Paste" and all the native Indent options.

This is part of our ongoing work to make it as easy as possible for you to format your AXAML exactly as you like.

Numerous other improvements and fixes

Including:

• Completions are now up to 100 times faster to show in large projects
• Fixed bug were documents were not being colored
• Fixed bug were outlining/region markers not displaying
• Snippet completions no longer show where they're not appropriate
• Improved signing in handling for slow connections

Send Feedback button

We want to make this extension as useful and helpful as we can so you can build amazing software as easily as possible. To help you tell us about problems or ideas for improvement, we've added a dedicated button in the editor so it's as easy as possible for you to share your thoughts and experiences directly with us.