Fedora 33 : Create a simple AvaloniaUI window.

This tutorial is about Avalonia UI.

Avalonia is a cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems such as Windows via .NET Framework and .NET Core, Linux via Xorg, macOS.

I install avalonia dotnet templates from here:

[mythcat@desk CSharpProjects]$ git clone https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/avalonia-dotnet-templates --recursive
Cloning into 'avalonia-dotnet-templates'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 37, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (37/37), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28/28), done.
remote: Total 379 (delta 14), reused 19 (delta 7), pack-reused 342
Receiving objects: 100% (379/379), 147.23 KiB | 881.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (202/202), done.
[mythcat@desk CSharpProjects]$ ls
aspnetapp  avalonia-dotnet-templates  HelloWorld  myapp001  MyGame001  Todo
[mythcat@desk CSharpProjects]$ dotnet new --install avalonia-dotnet-templates 
...

Create a default window example with AvaloniaUI:

[mythcat@desk CSharpProjects]$ dotnet new avalonia.app -o MyAppAvalonia
The template "Avalonia .NET Core App" was created successfully.
[mythcat@desk CSharpProjects]$ cd MyAppAvalonia/
[mythcat@desk MyAppAvalonia]$ dotnet add package Avalonia
...
[mythcat@desk MyAppAvalonia]$ dotnet add package Avalonia.Desktop
...
[mythcat@desk MyAppAvalonia]$ ls
App.xaml  App.xaml.cs  MainWindow.xaml  MainWindow.xaml.cs  MyAppAvalonia.csproj  nuget.config  Program.cs

Publish this example:

[mythcat@desk MyAppAvalonia]$ dotnet publish --configuration Release --runtime fedora.33-x64 --self-contained false
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.4.0+e901037fe for .NET Core
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Restore completed in 3.86 sec for /home/mythcat/CSharpProjects/MyAppAvalonia/MyAppAvalonia.csproj.
MyAppAvalonia -> /home/mythcat/CSharpProjects/MyAppAvalonia/bin/Release/netcoreapp3.0/fedora.33-x64/MyAppAvalonia.dll
MyAppAvalonia -> /home/mythcat/CSharpProjects/MyAppAvalonia/bin/Release/netcoreapp3.0/fedora.33-x64/publish/

The last step is the run:

[mythcat@desk MyAppAvalonia]$ dotnet /home/mythcat/CSharpProjects/MyAppAvalonia/bin/Release/netcoreapp3.0/
fedora.33-x64/publish/MyAppAvalonia.dll 

This will open a window build with AvaloniaUI.