AvaloniaRider

Install

Stable Release

Either search for Avalonia on the Plugins settings page, or visit the Plugin Marketplace.

Development Release

To install a development release (automatically published for every push into a development branch), first add the custom plugin repository into your IDE (see the documentation on how to do that).

Custom plugin repository address: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugins/dev/14839

Then, install the plugin as usual via the IDE plugin settings screen.

How to Use

Previewer

Make sure your Avalonia project is built, open a XAML file, and you'll see a XAML preview in Rider.

It's possible to interact with the previewer using the mouse, and zoom with Ctrl+Scroll Wheel.

File templates

Right-click a directory or an Avalonia-enabled project, and choose among the available file templates:

• Avalonia User Control
• Avalonia Templated control
• Avalonia Window
• Avalonia Resource Dictionary
• Avalonia Styles

Live templates

Type in editor to use Live templates:

• directProperty
• styledProperty
• attachedAvaloniaProperty

Documentation

• Changelog
• Contributor Guide
• License (MIT)
• Maintainership