Avalonia Layout with Zafiro.Avalonia

Master modern, clean, and maintainable Avalonia UI layouts.

Focus on semantic containers, shared styles, and minimal XAML.

🎯 Selective Reading Rule

📑 Content Map

🔗 Related Project (Exemplary Implementation)

For a real-world example, refer to the Angor project:

✅ Checklist for Clean Layouts

• Used semantic containers? (e.g., HeaderedContainer instead of Border with manual header)
• Avoided redundant properties? Use shared styles in axaml files.
• Minimized nesting? Flatten layouts using EdgePanel or generic components.
• Icons via extension? Use {Icon fa-name} and IconOptions for styling.
• Behaviors over code-behind? Use Interaction.Behaviors for UI-logic.
• Avoided Converters? Prefer ViewModel properties or Behaviors unless necessary.

❌ Anti-Patterns

• Use hardcoded colors or sizes (literals) in views.
• Create deep nesting of Grid and StackPanel.
• Repeat visual properties across multiple elements (use Styles).
• Use IValueConverter for simple logic that belongs in the ViewModel.

• Use DynamicResource for colors and brushes.
• Extract repeated layouts into generic components.
• Leverage Zafiro.Avalonia specific panels like EdgePanel for common UI patterns.