I installed VS with Xamarin but Intellisense in XAML files is not working properly. In some parts of the code it shows the list of suggestions as shown below.
Except in other parts of the code it does not show the list with all the items (image below).
It is also opening the XAML with the XML Editor, but should it not be with XAML Designer?
Does anyone have any suggestions for resolving or circumventing this problem?
Thank you all.
Those 2 behaviors that you described are by design, you can look at the following screenshot, since you type “<” inside and outside the node , the auto complete member list is different which defined in the XML Schemas.
For the second question, Xamarin.Forms doesn't currently support visual designers for XAML files. There is not yet a visual designer for generating XAML in Xamarin.Forms applications, so all XAML must be hand-written. We can know this from Why doesn't the Visual Studio XAML designer work for Xamarin.Forms XAML files?, but we can try to use the XAML Previewer for Xamarin.Forms to help us to preview the UI.
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Can't get XAML files open in any UI designer. Any choice makes them open in a text editor. XAML designer flag is enabled in options. Couldnt find any helpful answer on this. What am I doing wrong?
Xamarin.Forms doesn't have a designer, you have to write XAML on your own and use Previewer Tools (Xamarin Hotreload, LiveXAML, XAMLator) to preview the XAML changes you do until you think the UI looks good.
I just wanted to know that, is it possible to get the designer view in Xamarin.Forms with Visual Studio 2015. It's very hard to compile code every time to check the simple changes.
Thank You in advance.
If you are using XAML to write the code you can use XAML Previewer for Xamarin.Forms You can see the documentation here:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-previewer/
Few things to keep in mind:
You need to be connected to MAC Agent to make it work (I am not sure
why this is the case even for Android, For me it does not work without connecting to mac agent)
The Previewer works on any ContentPage, ContentView, or ViewCell in
a Xamarin.Forms application
To launch the Previewer in Visual Studio, select View -> Other
Windows -> Xamarin.Forms Previewer
Latest-and-greatest Xamarin.Forms NuGet is recommended; at least
2.3.2 is required
Project should be built (compiled) before attempting to preview XAML
files.
This is a "Preview" release, so it may not always work as expected.
Now i am going on with the development of xamarin forms pcl project,i have created a xaml file in my portable lib there i can't view the design.
Tried to fix it by the following link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh921077.aspx
http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/03/24/disable-the-xaml-designer-in-visual-studio/
How can i solve this issue.
There are no designer support from Xamarin, as it would be bit of complicated, but you might find Xamarin Forms Player a good tool to go,
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4ed9794a-2021-486a-9bca-4851c7ee7316
Visual Studio's XAML Designer currently does not support Xamarin XAML files.There's no designer for it atm.
Even though their syntax are very similiar , there are some slight differences between them.
When using Android Designer in Visual Studio I can't toggle between the source and content of my view. From some reason in the same solution in Xamarin Studio I can do that. I have looked all over the place but it is not there, also from memory I was able to do this in this solution a while back.
I had a similar problem to this before which was solved once I renamed all the folders under Resources to lower case letters.
Below is a picture of the window with a missing and another one with the toggle buttons there (in Xamarin Studio).
Cheers,
I've recently started developing Silverlight applications in Visual Studio and noticed that the XAML editor there is not optimal. Meaning, I can see the XAML in a text editor with pretty colors, but other than that it doesnt give me much productivity, like C# code, with all the list of methods and parameters in a drop down list and other helpfule views and windows. Is there really not much support in VS2010 for easier editing of XAML files?
u can try to use something like ReSharper