Movere is an implementation of managed dialogs for Avalonia. Currently there are message dialogs, as well as open and save file dialogs, and a print dialog (based on System.Drawing.Printing) is WIP.

To use Avalonia system dialog APIs, it's possible to simply register Movere dialogs with AppBuilder:

1. Import Movere namespace:

using Movere;

2. Add UseMovere to AppBuilder configuration. Example:

AppBuilder.Configure<App>()
    .UsePlatformDetect()
    .UseMovere();

3. Then use Avalonia system dialog APIs. Example:

var dialog = new OpenFileDialog();
var result = await dialog.ShowAsync(parent);

To simply use the dialogs (this example is for message dialogs, but it's similar for others):

1. Create a dialog service for Window (owner):

var messageDialogService = new MessageDialogService(owner);

2. Pass the service to View Model:

window.DataContext = new ViewModel(messageDialogService);

3. Show dialog from View Model when you need to:

private Task ShowInfoAsync() =>
    _messageDialogService.ShowMessageDialogAsync(
        new MessageDialogOptions(
            DialogIcon.Info,
            "Message Dialog",
            "Some info",
            DialogResultSet.OK));

Available icons are:

• DialogIcon.None
• DialogIcon.Info
• DialogIcon.Warning
• DialogIcon.Error

To add your own icon, just create an instance of DialogIcon and pass the resource string, e.g avares://My.App/Resources/Icons/MyIcon.png.

Dialog results are extensible as well, and support localization.

• Maybe separate file explorer view into separate project.
• Improve styles for dialogs.
• Add tests.
• Print dialog.
• Eventually move file explorer logic to a separate project and create a file explorer application.

• File - Kiranshastry
• Folder - Smashicons