Does Visual Studio 2010 support Debug Visualizers for Windows Phone (Silverlight) development?
My visualizer works fine in Windows apps but simply won't show up when debugging WP7 apps (no error message either).
MSDN Visualizers look at the Note and remember that silverlight in WP7 runs in partial trusted mode.
If I understood what you mean, you can use the shortcut ctrl+f9 to get access to the visualizer :)
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Every time I start VS 2017 (Enterprise) on Windows 10, it opens the Settings > Update & security > For developers screen. Why does it do this, and how can I prevent it?
Installed workloads:
.NET desktop
UWP
.NET mobile (Xamarin)
I don't recall changing anything else during installation.
I had the exact same problem when opening a Xamarin project.
(Maybe it's related to the configuration request of the Xamarin Mac Agent)
I've found that enabling the developer mode on the settings stop the
panel to popup everytime.
It shows up because of the UWP workload (along with a notification in Visual Studio that you need a developer license to develop UWP apps):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development
However, if you are writing software with Visual Studio on a computer for first time, you will need to enable Developer Mode on both the development PC, and on any devices you'll use to test your code. Opening a UWP project when Developer Mode is not enabled will either open the For developers settings page, or cause this dialog to appear in Visual Studio:
Developer mode lets you sideload apps, and also run apps from Visual Studio in debug mode.
Either switching to developer mode or modifying your Visual Studio installation to not include UWP will stop it from happening.
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.
I have a published Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango app). Since the windows phone 8 tools are available, I tried to run the project in Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone. The app runs in all emulators and the Windows Phone 7 device. The problem I'm facing is that the the designer is not displayed, the xaml file can be seen but the UI is not displayed.
Instead an error is displayed saying System.NullReferenceException
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Microsoft.Expression.DesignHost.Isolation.Remoting.STAMarshaler.WaitForCompletion(NestedCallContext nestedCallContext, BlockingCall call, WaitHandle timeoutSignal)
But it is displayed in Blend for Visual Studio. What could be wrong?
Apparently this question has been trolling in the Microsoft forums. Few solutions were mentioned there which included uninstalling and reinstallinf win WP8 SDK.
I did none of these, I checked for updates for Visual Studio and found one. The installation took some time, but it did fix the designer issue!! :D
Anxious to try our Visual Studio 2010 performance tools, but when I launch the performance wizard, it does not enumerate my XNA Windows Phone project as a project it can analyze, and instead just enumerates the XNA content project in my solution.
I installed VS 2010 SP1 hoping that because SP1 added performance tool support to silverlight, it would work for XNA Windows Phone as well. But it doesn't look like it.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
The emulator has a performance output (the numbers down the side). I would suggest using this, desktop performance and phone performance are not directly linked.
I'm attempting to use the bitmap visualizer in Visual Studio 2010, but when I bring up the quick watch window I don't see the magnifying glass described here. I set the app to full trust under the Security tab of the project settings but it didn't help. Has anybody successfully used the bitmap debug visualizer?
Oops. Don't know why I thought this was included in Visual Studio 2010 but there is a 3rd party version here.