https://github.com/sunsided/blazor-desktop-avalonia

Using Blazor Desktop with Avalonia (TL;DR: Doesn't work)
https://github.com/sunsided/blazor-desktop-avalonia

avalonia blazor blazor-desktop experimental

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Using Blazor Desktop with Avalonia (TL;DR: Doesn't work)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sunsided/blazor-desktop-avalonia
• Owner: sunsided
• Created: 2022-03-10T18:13:42.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-10T18:40:10.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T02:31:13.001Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: avalonia, blazor, blazor-desktop, experimental
• Language: HTML
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• Size: 212 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Blazor Desktop + Avalonia

TL;DR: [Blazor Desktop] using [Avalonia UI] currently doesn't work on Linux.

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From the current looks of it, there is no easy way to embed a browser view into Avalonia.

[WebViewControl-Avalonia] comes to mind; it does however rely on [CefGlue] for embedding

Chromium but has — as of writing this — no intention of supporting Linux

(see [OutSystems/CefGlue#18 (comment)](https://github.com/OutSystems/CefGlue/issues/18#issuecomment-917942591)).

The repository currently consists of three projects: 

- `src/BlazorDesktop`: A .NET 6 Blazor Server project.

- `src/RazorClassLibrary`: The main Razor components in a reusable class library.

- `src/AvaloniaUI`: The Avalonia MVVM application; it does not do anything useful at the moment. 

A possibly useful takeaway here is how to refactor a Blazor Server project into an application and a class library;

see the [Blazor Desktop - hybrid Web and Desktop apps in .NET 6!]

YouTube video for the inspiration. It relies on a Windows Forms application to include the web view however, 

so its proposed solution currently only runs on Windows.

Apart from Avalonia, the original epic on Blazor Desktop support, [dotnet/maui#2536](https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/2536),

further states that first class Linux support is currently not planned but might be added in the future.

[Avalonia UI]: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

[WebViewControl-Avalonia]: https://github.com/OutSystems/WebView

[CefGlue]: https://github.com/OutSystems/CefGlue

[Blazor Desktop]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-1/#blazor-desktop-apps

[Blazor Desktop - hybrid Web and Desktop apps in .NET 6!]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCR26PkaHmk