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Samples, documentation, and other related open-source projects for Actipro Avalonia Controls, a set of UI controls, components, and themes for building beautiful multi-platform Avalonia applications.

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Actipro Avalonia Pro Products

Elevate your application by licensing professionally designed commercial controls and getting access to the XAML source for all of our default control styles and themes.

Bars

Actipro Bars contains everything you need to implement advanced Office-like ribbon, toolbar, and menu functionality in your Avalonia applications. Multiple ribbon layout modes, variant sizing, content-rich galleries, screen tips, key tips, backstage, and MVVM support are all included.

Fundamentals

Actipro Fundamentals provides a collection of advanced controls that are useful for many different types of applications, including settings configuration controls, user prompts, message boxes, info bars, avatars, badges, segmented bars, progress spinners, and more.

Actipro Avalonia Free Products

Several Actipro products are freely available for anyone to use in their applications, providing a strong foundation for building high-quality applications.

Themes

Actipro Themes ensures that a great consistent visual appearance is applied to all controls within your application, regardless of whether they are Actipro Avalonia control products or native Avalonia controls.

Shared Library

The Actipro Shared Library is a common control library referenced by all our Actipro Avalonia controls. It contains several very useful controls, components, value converters, and utilities that can be used in your projects.

The Actipro Core Library is a class library that is completely UI framework agnostic. It contains numerous helpful utilities and base classes that can be used in your .NET projects.

Getting Started

Download and Run Samples

The Sample Browser application allows you to examine all of the Actipro Avalonia controls, themes, and their feature sets via hundreds of examples. Its full source code is contained in this repo's Samples\SampleBrowser folder.

Sample Browser

Follow these steps to download and run the application:

Review Product Documentation

Complete product documentation including an API reference is available on our web site.

Online Documentation

The Markdown source code for the product documentation is contained within this repo's Documentation\topics folder. The documentation is built with DocFx.

Evaluate in Your Apps

Packages for the Actipro Avalonia Controls are published on nuget.org, all beginning with the ActiproSoftware.Controls.Avalonia name prefix. References to the packages can be added to your own Avalonia application projects to evaluate and use them. See our NuGet Packages and Feeds documentation topic for more detail.

Minimum NuGet Packages

One of these NuGet packages must be referenced at a minimum to use our products:

Optional NuGet Packages

This NuGet package is for customers who have licensed the Actipro Avalonia Pro controls:

These two NuGet packages can be referenced if you wish to use Actipro's themes for the native ColorPicker and/or DataGrid controls that complement other Actipro Avalonia control themes:

Supported Technologies

* Some features or functionality may be limited or unavailable on non-desktop platforms.

Branches

This repository has two primary branches:

When cloning this repository for samples of our official releases, it's best to use the main branch.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to our open-source repository. If you want to submit a pull request, please first open a GitHub issue or contact us to discuss.

Read through our How to Contribute document, as it covers everything you need to know about contributing.

Support

Our Support document provides details about how to properly obtain support for both our closed-source UI control products and for code in this open-source repo (documentation and samples). This chart shows a quick summary:

UI Control ProductsOpen-Source Repos
Contact us via support options
Create a GitHub issue

Licensing

While the source code in this repo falls under the terms of the included license document, the Actipro End-User License Agreement (EULA) applies to usage of our commercial Avalonia control products.

The Licensing documentation topic discusses product licensing in detail.

Visit the Actipro purchasing page to order developer licenses for the Pro controls. Contact our sales team if you have any questions.