Install Your Avalonia IDE — Rider Setup with Live Preview

Install the right IDE for Avalonia development and get live UI preview working from day one. This is the companion video to the official Avalonia 12 IDE Setup documentation. We test three options — VS Code, Visual Studio, and Rider — so you know exactly which one to pick and why. Spoiler: Visual Studio for Mac was retired in 2024, VS Code lacks integrated run support for Avalonia, and Rider gives you the full experience including a live preview panel that updates as you type XAML. 📖 Full written guide → https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Introduction 0:10 IDE options for Avalonia 0:40 Installing Visual Studio Code 1:13 Visual Studio for Mac — retired in 2024 1:48 Installing the Avalonia extension in VS Code 2:37 Trying to run a project in VS Code 3:48 Why VS Code falls short for Avalonia 4:17 Installing Rider 4:50 Setting up Rider & installing the Avalonia plugin 6:00 Running your first project in Rider 6:19 Rider's live preview in action 6:55 Recommendation & wrap-up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📄 Official Docs → https://docs.avaloniaui.net 🐙 GitHub → https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia 💬 Community → https://t.me/Avalonia 🐦 X/Twitter → https://x.com/AvaloniaUI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #AvaloniaUI #dotnet #RiderIDE