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[Enhancement] Make community DevTools always available without a login #216
Description
Avalonia's dev tools are locked behind creating an account and signing in to the tool itself before being able to use even the free features available to the community. This means that in the event that your licensing servers go down (either temporarily or because you have gone out of business) it is not possible to use dev tools.
It would make Avalonia a much more inviting prospect if the community dev tools did not require creating an account and authenticating. I would very much appreciate if the free-to-use tools would be available instantly and to everyone doing development on an Avalonia project.
Reacted by Andy Castille, aghus, freddiesmartbox, Yaroslav M and Yusuf Bham
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MikeCodesDotNET commentedon Oct 20, 2026
Thanks for the suggestion.
DevTools for Avalonia 12 is a commercial product. The community edition makes it available at no cost for non-commercial use, and the account manages that licence. We have no plans to change this, so I’m closing the issue as not planned.
More on how we fund Avalonia: avaloniaui.net/sustainability
sconosciute commentedon Oct 20, 2026
Hey bud ya clicked the wrong close button. Really got my hopes up that y’all were sensible people.