Re: Avalonia Toolbox in Visual Studio?

[snaidamast]

Hello...

I would like to know why Avalonia doe not support a Toolbox listing of its controls in Visual Studio. With WPF I never used the designer since I find it doesn't work all that well. As a result, I write all my XAML by hand.

It would be very helpful to have an Avalonia Toolbox so I know what controls I have available to me...

[MikeCodesDotNET]

Great question! We don’t currently have a Visual Studio Toolbox integration because it hasn’t yet been implemented, though it’s something we recognise would be helpful.

I’m happy to share that this feature is on our roadmap as part of the improved Visual Studio extension coming with Avalonia Accelerate.

[snaidamast]

Thank you, Mike... This is good news... :-)

[thevortexcloud]

It would be very helpful to have an Avalonia Toolbox so I know what controls I have available to me...

Unless you are using some third party control, you can find the list here: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/basics/user-interface/controls/builtin-controls

Some of those controls do require an extra package to be installed (which the tool box probably would not help with if it was even there), but that's generally explained on the control's docs.

That said, that list is not exhaustive and there many other more niche controls (EG HeaderedContentControl) which are not in the list.

[snaidamast]

Thank you for your notes but I am already aware of this list.

I want a Toolbox listing as it simply makes development with these controls far easier than having to always look them up...