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Avalonia is a WPF-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of OSs: Windows (.NET Framework, .NET Core), Linux (GTK), MacOS, Android and iOS.
**Avalonia is currently in beta** which means that the framework is generally usable for writing applications, but there may be some bugs and breaking changes as we continue development.
Avalonia [Visual Studio Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AvaloniaTeam.AvaloniaforVisualStudio) contains project and control templates that will help you get started. After installing it, open "New Project" dialog in Visual Studio, choose "Avalonia" in "Visual C#" section, select "Avalonia .NET Core Application" and press OK (<ahref="http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/images/new-project-dialog.png">screenshot</a>). Now you can write code and markup that will work on multiple platforms!
For those without Visual Studio, starter guide for .NET Core CLI can be found [here](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/create-new-project#net-core).
Avalonia is delivered via <b>NuGet</b> package manager. You can find the packages here: ([stable(ish)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Avalonia/), [nightly](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Using-nightly-build-feed))
As mentioned above, Avalonia is still in beta and as such there's not much documentation yet. You can take a look at the [getting started page](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/) for an overview of how to get started but probably the best thing to do for now is to already know a little bit about WPF/Silverlight/UWP/XAML and ask questions in our [Gitter room](https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia).
There's also a high-level [architecture document](http://avaloniaui.net/architecture/project-structure) that is currently a little bit out of date, and I've also started writing blog posts on Avalonia at http://grokys.github.io/.
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