I am trying to develop a Windows Phone app and I am using Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 for development.
I am using Pivot App (Windows Phone) for development.
My problem is, XAML designer failed to load. I did some search on StackOverflow and Google and found some solutions and none of them worked.
The solutions I tried so far are :
Repair of a Visual Studio.
Clearing Contents in C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Designer\ShadowCache (Answered here on StackOverflow
Deleting ComponentModelCache from C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
and none of these worked.
Please help me if anyone have solution.
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I have installed Xamarin today & when I create a project, everything goes right but when I want to open the .axml file in layout folder, visual studio crashes! nothing happens & speed of the visual studio reduces the PCs performance. the only error that I get is: This item doesn't support previewing!
What should I do? Please help... . Thanks
The xamarin android designer has a lot of problems and a lot of community discussions which can be found :
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/118384/android-designer-does-not-work-well
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/125879/designer-not-loading-layout-at-all
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/76851/visual-studio-2015-android-designer-not-working
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/82082/android-designer-not-working-in-visual-studio-enterprise-2015
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/6258/android-designer-doesnt-work-in-vs-2012
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/99268/xamarin-android-designer-not-working.html
After reading all this discussion I could not understand the actual core reason of the issue and I was actually frustrated to the point where I repaired my Visual studio, now I could see the AXML file as XML when I opened it with the designer(crash stopped). But I could still not open the designer, So what I did was as I had experience with working with the android studio and I never faced this issue, I started working on Android studio for the AXML and copy-pasted that to xamarin and it worked like a charm.
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I've googled till I'm blue in the fingers trying to find a resolution to this issue. I've tried several things but nothing helps. I've got Xamarin and Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise. I had everything working on a previous PC a few months back. Now I have a new one and am just now getting Xamarin set up. I have a few demo and self hacked solutions I was working with. Now all of them give me the above error message. I've made sure the namespace is correct in all modules. The solutions are really small. Nothing fancy at all. Basically Hello World stuff so I'm at a failure to figure out why it fails now. Case in Point: The Hello World that is failing is one HelloWorld.cs file and a few PNGs in the Resources tree along with a main.xml.
If anyone could shed some light I would be most grateful.
I just updated (through VS) Xamarin. Now the older solutions I had won't load. If I create a new solution, I've got the same Resource does not exist error. Xamarin appears to be broken. I've worked with it in the past and had no problems like these.
I resolved it. My Xamarin version was not updated. I updated it by going to
Programs & Features => Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015, click on change/modify. Now in Visual Studio Popup under Cross Platform Mobile Developement update the C#/.NET (Xamarin v__). After updating this error gets resolved.
For me I didn't required to install Visual Studio 2017.
Also Thanks Martin for your suggestion, your answer can also workaround but it is not necessary to install 2017 just need to upgrade Xamarin version to work with VS 2015.
This bug currently arises with Visual Studio 2015. See this thread and this thread on the Xamarin Forums. Apparently the only workarounds now is to install Visual Studio 2017 or downgrade to older version of Xamarin. There is also an opened bug report for this, so it hopefully should get resolved soon.
I'm having this error pop up once I start Visual Studio professional 2013 with update 3.
I don't know whats going on and also when I created a web form and try to put items from the toolbox into a table in my code it doesn't let me. the items are dim and can't select them any more. before I would make a table and try to add Labels, textbox, etc and it wasn't a problem.
Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
Tools -> Extensions and Updates
Disabled "Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 v2.1".
That worked for me.
I got the same issue today, but the error message should be giving you some guidance.
Take a look at mine, it tells me to check the "ActivityLog.xml" for more information.
After looking at the entry my error showed me that it ocured the evening before around 5:30pm and I know I was installing the Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 at this time. So it seems I had a problem with my Update installation.
(Sorry maybe someone can school me on how to properly load an image for viewing)
So I realized my problem was an install issue I created, yours might be an add-on or something similar that you just updated your Visual Studio with that corrupted your VS.
So a little more researching and asking some buddies at work and we tried doing this step in another SO article, which should have the same effect of fixing our package loading problem also.
the Provider package did not load.
After running the steps listed there my Visual Studio started up without any obvious issue.
Hope this helps.
Open ActivityLog.xml in a viewer (I've used Microsoft Edge) and you'll find the error. VSPackage is the "Developer Analytics Tools" extension for me.
The error is gone after uninstalling that package. You can obtain the package and attempt to reinstall from the Developer Analytics Tools page in the Visual Studio Gallery.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Visual Studio and the problem went away for a little bit. It eventually came back complaining about different packages.
Then I noticed my home directory was encrypted. I decrypted the directory and the problem went away.
If it is not an encryption issue, I'd try just uninstalling and reinstalling VS 2013.
Message could be shown in case of "Path" environment variable longer than 2048 characters. In that case, system doesn't work proply with system paths like %windir%.
If it's your case, shorten "Path" environment variable and everything works again.
I am having trouble with creating tables in VS 2012 and cant seem to resolve this. I loaded Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate yesterday, didn't do any manual configuring just let it install. Couple of days later tried to add a table in my solution in Design view by right clicking the Tables icon in Server Explorer, and the error seen in the image below appeared, I thought it might be a problem with my solution so I created a another, and another, but still had the same problem.
Is this a known issue in VS 2012 Ultimate, or is there something I'm missing here? Is there a fix or a workaround?
go to programs and features of your windows as if you are going to uninstall VS and click repair.. it solved the problem to me
I'm trying to open a silverlight project in Visual Studio 2008 and getting this error.
The project type is not supported by this installation.
Let me tell you I did installed:
VS2008
SP1
Silverlight Tools 3
Silverlight SDK
Silverlight
And they were installed in the sequence they are mentioned here. Still I'm getting the same error.
Adding some more details which might be helpful in identifying the cause:
When I try to create a new silverlight project it gives me error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". And shows "...project creation failed."
I tried unistalling all of the things and installing them again. It really took a lot of time but didn't solved my problem.
Any help appreciated.
Open the project.csproj file with another editor, delete whatever you find between
<ProjectTypeGuids></ProjectTypeGuids>
I've had the same error when I tried to open a solution which required VB.NET, despite everything (to my knowledge) being C#.
If you've done a full install of VS then try this solution: http://andrewgunn.blogspot.com/2008/03/silverlight-project-type-is-not.html
Let us know how it goes.
Do you know who the silverlight project was created by? If so, then contact them and ask them if they used VS 2008 or if they used VS 2010 beta 1/2 (VS 2010 has a lot more and better support for silverlight so it's probable)
If they used VS 2010, then just go to the microsoft website and download you a copy... it's free(right now)
(and if you'll be doing much silverlight development, I'd recommend downloading it anyway. It has code completion for XAML!)
run devenv /setup