/AvaloniaRider

JetBrains Rider plugin for Avalonia development

Primary LanguageKotlinMIT LicenseMIT

AvaloniaRider JetBrains Plugins Repository

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.

Preview Screenshot

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