ShellIcons.Avalonia 0.2.0-alpha

This is a prerelease version of ShellIcons.Avalonia.

dotnet add package ShellIcons.Avalonia --version 0.2.0-alpha

NuGet\Install-Package ShellIcons.Avalonia -Version 0.2.0-alpha

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="ShellIcons.Avalonia" Version="0.2.0-alpha" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

<PackageVersion Include="ShellIcons.Avalonia" Version="0.2.0-alpha" />
                    

                            Directory.Packages.props

<PackageReference Include="ShellIcons.Avalonia" />
                    

                            Project file

For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.

paket add ShellIcons.Avalonia --version 0.2.0-alpha

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#r "nuget: ShellIcons.Avalonia, 0.2.0-alpha"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

#:package ShellIcons.Avalonia@0.2.0-alpha

#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.

#addin nuget:?package=ShellIcons.Avalonia&version=0.2.0-alpha&prerelease
                    

                            Install as a Cake Addin

#tool nuget:?package=ShellIcons.Avalonia&version=0.2.0-alpha&prerelease
                    

                            Install as a Cake Tool

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ShellIcons.Avalonia (preview)

Lucide-derived icons for Avalonia, from the same 1,555-icon catalog as ShellIcons.Blazor and ShellIcons.Maui. Docs: shellicons.shellui.dev/docs/avalonia/getting-started.

Install

dotnet add package ShellIcons.Avalonia --prerelease

Targets net8.0 and Avalonia 12.1.

Use

<Window xmlns:icons="https://shellicons.dev/avalonia">
    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8">
        
        <icons:ChevronRight Size="16" />

        
        <icons:Icon Kind="Search" Foreground="Crimson" />
        <icons:Icon Kind="{Binding StatusIcon}" Title="Status" />
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

Property	Default	Notes
`Size`	`24`	Width and height
`StrokeThickness`	`2`	On the 24-unit grid, scaled with `Size` like the other targets
`AbsoluteStroke`	`false`	Keep the rendered stroke at `StrokeThickness` at any size
`Foreground`	inherited	The same inherited property text uses, so an icon in a `Button` takes the button's foreground
`Title`	`null`	Sets `AutomationProperties.Name`; null keeps the icon out of the accessibility tree

Names and metadata are the same API as the MAUI package:

IconCatalog.TryParse("home", out var name);        // → IconName.House (Lucide alias)
IconCatalog.Get(IconName.House).Tags;               // ["home", "living", "building", …]
IconCatalog.Search("cart");                         // id matches first, then aliases/tags/categories

Differences from ShellIcons.Maui

	MAUI	Avalonia	Why
Dispatcher property	`Name`	`Kind`	Avalonia's `Name` is already the element name (`x:Name`)
Color	`Color` (a `Color`)	`Foreground` (a brush, inherited)	Avalonia has an inherited foreground, so icons follow text color the way `currentColor` does in Blazor
Hit testing	`InputTransparent`	`IsHitTestVisible="False"`	Each framework's own property; same behavior

IconName, IconCatalog, IconInfo, Size, StrokeThickness, AbsoluteStroke and Title are identical.

How it draws

ShellIcons.Generator.Xaml converts each SVG at build time into one normalized path string (M L C Q A Z, absolute coordinates) — the same conversion and the same data the MAUI package uses. Avalonia parses that grammar natively, so the control turns it into a StreamGeometry once per icon, caches it, and draws it in Render under a scale transform. There are no child controls: an icon is one visual.

Design decisions

Decision	Why
Custom-drawn `Control`, not a `Path` inside a template	One visual per icon, no template to apply, no layout pass for children. Lists and toolbars show many icons.
`Foreground` added from `TextElement.ForegroundProperty`	It inherits, so icons match surrounding text without a style.
`Kind` for the dispatcher	`Name` is taken; `Kind` is what Avalonia icon libraries already use.
Shared generator with MAUI, picked by `<ShellIconsTarget>`	One catalog reader and one emitter, so the two XAML packages can't drift apart.

Verified

Builds with zero warnings; part of ShellIcons.slnx, so it needs no extra workloads.
34 headless tests that render through Skia: every icon parses, stays on the 24×24 grid and draws ink inside its own cell; size, stroke, color, XAML namespace and accessibility are checked from real pixels or the real property system. One test checks the 110 icon names ShellUI Native uses.
Installed from the packed package into a fresh dotnet new avalonia.app on Windows: icons render in a desktop window, a DynamicResource brush recolors them, and a click on an icon inside a Button reaches the button. Not yet looked at on macOS or Linux.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 was computed. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 was computed. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed.

Product

.NET

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

net8.0
- Avalonia (>= 12.1.3)

NuGet packages

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Version	Downloads	Last Updated
0.2.0-alpha	58	10/23/2026