👋 Welcome

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Welcome to Avalonia Documentation, a steadily growing collection of guides, documentation and API reference for Avalonia UI.

If you can't find what you need here, visit our friendly community where you'll find lots of people happy to help you, or if you're in need of more support you can opt for a paid support plan which helps support the continued growth of the project.

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Getting Started

Everything you'll need to kick start your development with Avalonia.

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API Reference

A detailed reference to all the APIs available in Avalonia.

Tutorials

Guided learning from the creators of Avalonia.

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Samples

You can find our samples on GitHub but there also exists a huge array of OSS projects built with Avalonia which provide valuable opportunities to learn. You can find a few of these projects on the Awesome-Avalonia list over on GitHub.