This version upgrades all the Actipro controls and themes to target the recently-released Avalonia 11.1 version.
For customers who wish to continue targeting their applications with Avalonia v11.0 for now, please use the Actipro Avalonia UI Controls 24.1 version, as that targets Avalonia v11.0.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Most applications contain a window or view where end users can configure settings. Actipro now provides several controls for displaying grouped and optionally expandable card-based editors for settings that are presented in a consistent, easy-to-use way.
Consistent Appearance - Cards have a uniform design, and related cards can be grouped together. Each setting card can optionally have an icon, header, description, and content.
Card Contents - A setting card's content is generally an editor for the setting. The content may be left blank, and the card itself can be made into a clickable button.
Flexible Editors - Each setting card can contain any kind of editor control. Switches, sliders, combo boxes, and text boxes are commonly-used editor controls.
Expandable Sections - Some settings have numerous child settings. These indented settings may be hidden under expandable cards that animate the contents when opened.
Application settings have never looked so good!
Card
The new card control presents visually grouped information for a single subject, using optional cover, thumbnail, header, and footer sections.
Cards can optionally be actionable as well.
Segmented Bar
The new segmented bar control allows a user to select a single item with support for fluent animations when changing selection.
It can arrange items horizontally or vertically.
Info Bar
The new info bar control displays essential information to a user without disrupting the user flow.
Messages can display with optional severity, action, and more.
Circular Progressbar
The new circular progressbar control displays a ranged progress value using fluent animations. It is similar to a native linear progressbar, except that it renders the progress in a ring shape and shows the progress text within the ring.
An indeterminate state is supported for scenarios where no specific progress value can yet be determined.
Shared Library
Scrollable Overflow Presenter
The new scrollable overflow presenter control can be oriented horizontally or vertically and displays scroll buttons when its content overflows the available space.
Clicking a scroll button smoothly scrolls the content.
Themes
Toggle Switch Affinity
Toggle switches can now optionally arrange the knob/track on the right side of the control instead of the left, which is ideal when used in the new settings-related controls.
Avalonia
The minimum Avalonia UI dependency is updated from v11.0.5 to v11.0.7 and all native control themes should now be consistent with Avalonia UI’s theme updates through v11.0.10.
Most applications contain a window or view where end users can configure settings. Actipro now provides several controls for displaying grouped and optionally expandable card-based editors for settings that are presented in a consistent, easy-to-use way.
Consistent Appearance - Cards have a uniform design, and related cards can be grouped together. Each setting card can optionally have an icon, header, description, and content.
Card Contents - A setting card's content is generally an editor for the setting. The content may be left blank, and the card itself can be made into a clickable button.
Flexible Editors - Each setting card can contain any kind of editor control. Switches, sliders, combo boxes, and text boxes are commonly-used editor controls.
Expandable Sections - Some settings have numerous child settings. These indented settings may be hidden under expandable cards that animate the contents when opened.
Application settings have never looked so good!
Shared Library
Card
The new Card control presents visually grouped information for a single subject, using optional cover, thumbnail, header, and footer sections.
Cards can optionally be actionable and even support built-in integration with badges.
InfoBar
The new InfoBar control displays essential information to a user without disrupting the user flow. Messages can display with optional severity, action, and more.
Bars
Many updates have been made to the Bars controls to further improve features and functionality.
This version brings the Bars product and its ribbon control out of beta, adds many new controls to the Shared Library, adds support for easy toggling of SyntaxEditor light/dark themes, improves the .NET Languages Add-on, makes UIA peer updates for .NET 8, and much more.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
The Bars product and its ribbon control have exited beta status. Bars is intended to replace the older Ribbon product, which is now deprecated but will continue to ship. We encourage customers to migrate to Bars over time, since it has a much better API that is designed to support both MVVM and XAML usage, and with a much more modern appearance.
Mini-Toolbar
A mini-toolbar control has been added to Bars that can be displayed in a context menu.
Ribbon Group Multi-Row Layouts
Due to customer feedback, we moved ribbon group multi-row layout functionality out into a new RibbonMultiRowControlGroup control.
This allows for even more advanced layouts where multi-row buttons can be displayed next to other full height controls.
Shared Library
Avatar
The new avatar controls are used to represent people or objects. They can render a full-size image, a centered glyph, a person's initials, or text.
Avatar Group
Avatar group controls can render multiple avatar controls with configurable overlap and overflow features.
Badge and Numeric Badge
The new badge and numeric badge controls provide contextual information for other elements, and can also be used on their own.
Badge can display any content (e.g., “New!”) or can render as a dot. A displayed badge can be positioned anywhere on a target element and can pop into place with animation when shown.
Numeric badge is derived from the core badge control and is built for displaying a numeric count value. When the count value exceeds a given threshold, it displays an overflow string (i.e., "99+").
Circular Progressbar
The new circular progressbar control displays a ranged progress value using fluent animations. It is similar to a native linear progressbar, except that it renders the progress in a ring shape, and shows the progress text within the ring.
An indeterminate state is supported for scenarios where no specific progress value can yet be determined.
User Prompt Builder
A class to facilitate using the builder pattern to simplify creating and showing prompts based on UserPromptControl has been added.
var result = UserPromptBuilder.Configure()
.WithHeaderContent("Overwrite existing file?")
.WithContent("The specified file already exists. Do you want to overwrite the file?")
.WithStandardButtons(UserPromptStandardButtons.YesNo)
.WithStatusImage(UserPromptStandardImage.Question)
.Show();
SyntaxEditor
Light and Dark Themes
It’s easier than ever to support switching between light and dark themes in SyntaxEditor. A new class helps orchestrate updating SyntaxEditor UI elements, highlighting styles, and icon sets when toggling between light and dark themes.
All Actipro-provided syntax languages now include both light and dark highlighting styles, and we automatically convert many popular light-themed colors to appropriate dark-themed colors for custom languages that have yet to be updated with explicit dark styles.
Highlighting Styles
The current line number is now highlighted in a different style than other line numbers, so the default line number colors have been updated to better suit this feature.
Multiple carets and current line highlighting
When using multiple carets while editing, the primary caret now has a more distinctive appearance than secondary carets.
Several other highlighting styles have also had their default values tweaked.
.NET Languages Add-on
The C# parser grammar has been updated to support C# 9.0 syntax, including everything from top-level statements to records and improved pattern matching.
A C# document with top-level statements
Resolver support has been improved for local functions.
Documentation comments display in IntelliPrompt now supports <para> and <br/> tags for paragraph and line breaks.
.NET 8 Support
The WPF Controls officially support .NET 8 with this release.
UIA peers have been updated and added for numerous controls to better support accessibility updates in .NET 8.
Sample Browser
The Sample Browser application has been updated to use an SDK-style project and target .NET 6.