So I'm trying to load the XAML designer in visual Studio, and it won't show up, only the source editor shows up
I use the XAML WPF designer to make a lot of decisions, as I'm not on a team and do everything myself with this program including UI design so I tried to turn it back on, so in the settings I tried to turn it on
I set it to these settings and restarted visual studio and I still can't open it, can someone please help me load the designer?
thanks
What is below your bottom bar in your screenshot? you should see the Design/XAML tabs to toggle between them, or mouse on the border to drag up the designer/xaml splitter.
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When I create UWP or windows phone project and try to edit a page in xaml, no visual changes displayed in the editor - it just stays empty. However, borders of selected element are displayed. So it can be defined that editor processes layout right, but displays no visual part of elements.
The problem occurs on visual studio 2015 proffesional, and also vs 2017 community. So I think problem is not related to IDE, maybe something wrong with SDK.
Hyper-V is enabled if it makes any difference.
Tashiu,
Set the
project properties
->Application
->Target version to Windows 10(10.0;Build 10240),
the design view shows up again.
I'm trying to do some Android C# app development for the first time. Iv installed Xamarin for VS2015 and I'm able to create, build, and start an Android Xamarin Project. The only problem is when I add an Android Layout, I can see the .axml source, but not the design view. No matter how many times I click on it, it keeps the source view open. This is quite confusing and aggravating as there are no errors or warnings being displayed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a GIF of me trying to click on the Designer tab profusely:
Solved. I instead opened main.axml in the layout folder which allowed it to load in some files for a few seconds and showed the designer.
In your Solution Explorer, right click on an axml file and select "Open With". As one of the options, you should see "Android Designer". Open it with that. In addition, you can reset it as the Default by clicking the "Set As Default" button.
asp below link:
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/5233/visual-studio-plugin-cant-switch-between-source-design-anymore
Its Not a Programming Question But about Visual studio express 2012.
Trying to create a new report in the visual studio 2012 but can not see the list of data sets, parameters etc: In general tab i am seeing this
"There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox"
I have searched to fixed it but not succeeded till now..
I came across this same issue today and read plenty of things such as "this is VS bug...." but the solution was much simpler than that, I just needed to stop debugging (Shift+F5).
If that doesn't work, I recommend restarting the IDE.
If this doesn't work, I guess that uninstalling VS and doing a fresh installation is the answer you're looking for. It's important to note that it's recommended to restart Windows after installing VS and before launching it.
Right click on the Toolbox and press "Show All"
Right click on Toolbox, Click on "choose Items.". Restart IDE. That worked for me.
Right click on Toolbar and select: Reset Toolbox.
MFC controls will reappear.
I also had this problem, and it turned out I was trying to open the wrong toolbox: what I was actually looking for was the 'SSIS toolbox'. If none of the other options have worked, try selecting View -> Other Windows -> SSIS Toolbox. That fixed it for me.
[I found this out from this blog by James Serra]
In VS 2015, the SSIS Toolbox is under SSIS tab, not under View.
"There are no usable controls..." is shown when you have currently opened a file that is not designer file (e.g. "Form1.cs"). Once you open the designer file (e.g. "Form1.Designer.cs") the items should be shown again.
Just hover over the design and then press escape. A control that you had selected and not dropped is holding up memory.
This happened to me, and it was because I was currently debugging. Once I ended debugging, the usable controls appeared.
I just started using Visual Studio 2012.
Got into the designer, added a button, but I'm unable to move it.
Am I missing something? I thought this worked extremely similar to visual c# express.
Yes you're probably missing something, the designer should move the controls using drag and drop.
I don't know if there's an option to block control (probably there is) and maybe you pressed it
Try to go in the document outline panel there you can block/unblock controls
Sorry guys! seems I had to go to Tools, HTML Designer, CSS Styling and activate "Change positioning to absolute for controls added using Toolbox, paste or drag and drop".
Not sure what the consequences are, though.
The "comment out selected lines" toolbar button is disabled in Visual Studio 2010. I have text selected an am in a text editor window, but the toolbar button is grayed out. Could I have flipped a setting somewhere?
Edit: This is for c# code editing.
I didnt want to do this, but uninstalling it and reinstalling it fixed it. Still have no idea what caused it and I have no intention of trying to replicate it as it took me a while to reinstall my packages.
Thanks everyone for your help.
There is a shortcut for that : Ctrl+E Ctrl+U
If there is a little blue padlock icon on the file's tab, then the code is running in the debugger, or else the file is open read-only. Either way, you can't comment code, neither with the toolstrip button, nor with the keyboard shortcut.