Aug 20, 2025 · 5 min read · Creating a welcoming first‑run experience is a small investment that pays dividends in user satisfaction and retention. An onboarding flow is the sequence of screens that introduce an application and guide a new user through initial choices. This pos...
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Jul 26, 2025 · 11 min read · Building multi-page UIs in Avalonia can feel a bit messy at first. You’ve got your ViewModels, UserControls, and a ContentControl to swap views — but keeping things clean, reactive, and scalable takes a bit of structure. In this walkthrough, I’ll sho...
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Jun 20, 2025 · 9 min read · FileTidy is a native, cross-platform app that organizes messy folders like Desktop and Downloads. I built it to solve my own frustration with clutter, and it turned into one of my most useful side projects. Ever opened your Desktop and just stared a...
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May 30, 2025 · 12 min read · TL;DR: Explore an overview of four leading cross-platform app development frameworks: .NET MAUI, Flutter, Avalonia, and React Native. Discover their strengths and weaknesses across supported platforms, rendering, performance, UI customization, and mo...
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Apr 20, 2024 · 2 min read · In Avalonia there is the concept of templated control, which allows you to create your own components, overwrite existing ones and several other things. Normally you overwrite your component's template, via view or code behind and style whatever you ...
Join discussionApr 17, 2024 · 5 min read · After some experimentation, a minimum Avalonia app that can be ran from an .fsx file or a Polyglot Notebook. The Polyglot Notebook can be found at: https://github.com/Fxplorer/Fxplorer_www/blob/main/docs/MinimumFsharpAvaloniaApp.ipynb The .fsx script...
Join discussionFeb 19, 2024 · 2 min read · After searching for a long time, I have settled on using the Avalonia UI framework as my base for software. My desired language is F#, which I have followed for more than 10 years but still am a newbie. I have accepted that my sweet spot is more in t...
Join discussionDec 7, 2022 · 9 min read · Developers around the world use their favorite IDEs every day to create software. Today we are checking one of them and looking at the most interesting errors found. Introduction The modern developer uses many tools to succeed. These include IDEs (I...
Join discussionOct 7, 2022 · 4 min read · Wat Few weeks ago I posted about how I wanted to see what it was like to work with desktop apps. I ended up saying that I was going to try Vala, well I did not go too far with that. If just feels like the community is not there, but I might try again...
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Sep 20, 2022 · 5 min read · Some time ago I published in here a post where I was speaking about me getting a bit of an idea on how to work with Desktop apps in 2022, after years of Web Development (and with a massive disgust for electron apps). As mentioned there, one of my pro...
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