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Is there a designer for Xamarin xaml files?
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Closed 4 years ago.
The XAML Designer does not work at all. I tried all possible solutions to the problem. Double reinstalled Visual Studio, but it did not help. I even put on Windows 7 and there also a couple of times reinstalled the Visual Studio. I click through the right button in the menu, but I get only raw code. Now it gives an error "it is not possible to open this editor". Visual Studio 15.7.4, xamarin.forms.
Actually there is no XAML designer for Visual Studio.
I have gotten the xaml preview to work, but it only does so on simple Xamarin components. I've never seen it work on custom components. This has been a problem for years. Unfortunately, I gave up and now just test xaml by running the App. I have not tested it out, but there is a Xamarin form inspector available if you upgrade to enterprise addition.
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For many years I used MS Expression Web but moved up to Visual Studio 2015. In Expression Web I could CTRL + Click to follow a link and it would open the page of code related to the link. After spending days trying to figure this out in VS, I have to ask if anyone knows how this works in VS?
I have a problem. At the time of writing the code in Xamarin Studio when I put the bracket it's only put open, but I would like to put both an open and a closed set. How would I do it?
I would suggest, you use the best and powerful ide from Microsoft,
Visual Studio https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
Just click the Mobile .Net Development upon installation and you'll have Visual Studio with Xamarin. :)
Hi I've just installed Visual Studio for Mac. I've created a new solution/project (ASP.NET Core Empty Web Application), but for some reason I'm missing drag/drop items from the Toolbox. Any suggestions why its empty?
Thanks :)
Happened to me too. I installed the latest updates, closed VS and re-opened it. Suddenly the tools were there.
I am investigating xamarin forms for windows phone development and I'm trying to work with an example project from the following book:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/7/747DDA87-CA9F-4394-9B3F-4426BFE52BBF/Microsoft_Press_eBook_Xamarin_Preview_2_PDF.pdf
I got it to compile fine on the local machine, so far so good. When I try to open the xaml file for the app layout in the visual editor I get the following message:
I'm using visual studio community edition 2015
My question is: is there a visual editor for xaml I can use and how can I acquire it?
No, there is not. Xamarin might be working on it for a long while but they never clearly announce such a plan.
Microsoft instead offers IntelliSense if you are editing Xamarin.Forms XAML in the code editor as it once announced.
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Disable Visual Assist X for certain project types
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Closed 8 years ago.
Is there a way that when Visual Studio Starts have Visual Assist disabled and enable it when I need it?
I mostly work with C# projects and for that I use Resharper. However when I am working with C++ I would like to use Visual Assist and only then I would like to enable Visual Assist.
Is it possible to achieve that?
You can disable Visual Assist for certain file extensions:
Open Visual Assist's options menu
Click on "Projects and Files"
Type .cs to the editbox next to "Extensions to Ignore:"
Hope this helps.