Common Avalonia Assets folder shared by projects?

[TangDave]

In my C# project file I have:

  <ItemGroup>
        <AvaloniaResource Include="Assets\**"/>
  </ItemGroup>

I can then successfully access image files at runtime as follows:
... AssetLoader.Open(new Uri("avares://" + assemblyName + "/Assets/Icons/" + imageFileName)) ...

However, I'd like to share an Assets folder among many applications - this folder would be independent of the project folder. How would I do this?

[stevemonaco]

AvaloniaResource is baked into the assembly. You're going to have to load from disk (not through the asset system) instead unless you write your own approach to load a DLL at runtime (eg. dynamic plugin) which contains the resources.

[TangDave]

Even if it's baked into the assembly, could it not reference an Assets folder not within the project folder?
For instance, I'm using a linked App.xamal file that is outside of the project folder and shared by multiple projects - isn't this a similar idea?

[stevemonaco]

If your other projects have a project/NuGet ref so the assembly with the AvaloniaResources gets built into the project, sure. But that's duplicated per application, not shared.

[TangDave]

Thanks for the advice.