In Visual Studio 2008 when I open a XAML file from the project it displays the horizontal split with the preview on the top, and the XAML on the bottom. Most of the time our XAML won't render in the preview, so I just have to wait for it to try to render, and then close the preview.
Is there a way to have it default to not showing the XAML Preview window and just giving me a full XAML edit window? Thanks!
From the VS2008 menu select tools, options to display the options dialog. Then from the treeview in the dialog select text editor, xaml, miscellaneous then check the always open documents in full XAML view in the right pane.
It was supposed to be removed with the release of the tools for Silverlight 3, but it's still there, it's just hidden by default. This saves having to close it at least, but doesn't fix the performance problems that are the heart of the matter.
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is there a way to hide the Visual Studio toolbar only while coding? For example, when I'm on the Designer page I'm gonna need the toolbar to edit the GUI, but it's useless when coding, so I only want to hide it while coding.
I am assuming you mean Toolbox, if not my apologies.
You can set it to auto-hide by left clicking and picking the appropriate option. This should hide it once you are done selecting the Control.
I'm maintainig an old MFC application with Visual Studio 2013. Building the application works fine, but I'm unable to use the dialog editor.
When I open a dialog from the resource view, it displays correctly, I can click on the existing items, view their properties, move them etc.
But when I open the toolbox via the View-Toolbox command (Ctrl+Alt+X), all I get is an empty toolbox as displayed below:
Right click on the toolbar and "Reset Toolbox" doesn't change anything
Right click and then "Show all" shows an impressive list of tools, among those there is the Dialog Editor, but all items are inactive as shown in the picture below:
On the other hand when I create a new MFC project from scratch, the toolbox containing the dialog items works fine.
Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong?
FYI: in the meantime I use Visual Studio 6 (yes) for editing the resources.
There are two typical work arounds to get the toolbox back in Visual Studio. One is to reset the toolbox as you've tried. The other is to delete the “.tbd” files in your corresponding C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 folder.
In visual studio 2010 Ultimate I was working with Apply Style window and I temporarily closed this window by clicking X on it. Later when I look for it under View > Apply Style (its usual place) it wasn't there. devenv /resetsettings not seem to be working for me. any idea on how I can return the window back?
Thanks,
Try Tools-->Customize and then look for the Add Command button, where you can find the Apply Styles window under the "View" category.
The problem is solved by resetting the settings..
From Menu, Tools > Import and Export Settings is selected and using the wizard IDE is reset. Then the lost icons come back (visible and ready) under View.
you have to switch to HTML (Web Form) Explorer.
in your solution explorer
right click on index.html >
Open with... >
HTML (Web Form) Explorer
then in your visual studio toolbar select VIEW and you should find Apply Style now
Usually there are tabs like Toolbox, Properties, Error List, Output, Find results... on the side of screen. When I mouseover to those hidden windows, the window will popup. Is there any way to disable it? Thanks.
You can go in Tools > Options > Environment > Tabs and Windows and uncheck "Show auto-hidden windows on mouse over".
How can I show only the icons in visual studio windows? For example, the properties bar tab shows the icon and the text "Properties". Also the toolbox tab shows the icon the text "Toolbox". I would like to see only icons on tabs.
Do you know where this setting is?
Thanks
In VS2008 you can right click the toolbox and deselect "list view". This will change the view to icon, but only for the current tab.