Why can't Avalonia bind to internal members?

[colejohnson66]

For our application, we want to use ResX localization in our DLL. Everything works fine until we want to bind to resources in XAML. For some reason, our resources class must be public for this to work (see the guide). If we don't, the error message claims the member just doesn't exist:

Error AVLN2000 Avalonia: Unable to resolve "Resources.CancelText" as static field, property, constant or enum value Line 32, position 17.

Which is bad (it should say it exists, but has wrong accessibility), but that's a different discussion. Why can't Avalonia bind to internal members? Especially because the lowered XAML is just target2.Text = MyNamespace.Resources.CancelText. Besides, IL can ignore accessibility modifiers, so they shouldn't matter. Why must I expose my internal Resources type to DLL users just so Avalonia can work?

[maxkatz6]

x:Static is not related to binding, but it still should work with internal members in the same assembly. Otherwise, it's a bug.

[colejohnson66]

Thanks for clarifying. I've opened a bug report: #16929.