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Is there a way to preview animation in xaml editor?

I am coding some basic animation and would like to see it's render without building/deploying the entire project. If I remember correctly, I already managed to see such preview when creating animation in codebehind. I am now using the xaml and am…
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Visual studio designer doesn't find and render the resources linked by Shared Resources Dictionary

I've implemented a Shared Resources Dictionary, the app is compiled and run without problems but the XAML designer doesn't render the liked resources by its. The designer report the follow issues over the "Source" property: cannot create unknown…
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XAML Designer event handling

I have my custom UserControl (ScaleTest) in which I set some nested properties like this:
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How to hide designer error "The property xyz does not exist in the "http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" namespace

In VS 2015 (SP3) the designer shows an error for ignorable namespaces. In older versions (older SPs) this was not displayed as error. The project compiles w/o errors and also in runtime there are no errors. So only the designer shows this as…
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Is it possible to debug UWP (Win10) Xaml user control in Design Mode (Xaml Designer) on Visual Studio 2015?

I run two instances of VS 2015, the second one instance is attached to XDesProc.exe (Xaml Designer) of the first one VS 2015 instance and breakpoints in user control code behind file are inactive after opening xaml file in Xaml Designer on first…
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How to set XAML Design View to be on right by default?

When we set split orientation to Vertical for XAML Designer in Visual Studio, Design View is positioned on left. Is it possible to make it on right by default?
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XAML Designer not loading and giving System.TypeLoadException exception

The XAML Designer in my UWP project is not loading. It gives the following error. System.TypeLoadException Method 'GetStylePropertyTargetType' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.DesignTools.WindowsXamlDesigner.Metadata.WindowsUIXamlPlatformMetadata'…
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Custom control does not allow to focus its children in design view

I struggle for a while with no luck. My custom control is based on ContentControl, and similar to HeaderedContentControl, just with footer too. If element in header of original HeaderedContentControl is clicked in design view, in example: …
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WPF Xaml Designer is getting Out Of Memory due to Embedded Resources in the ModelVIew

So I had this problem for a while, and the only way to go around is to change the build action of the embedded resources to none then build the MV. After that, I build the View and it works like a charm. However If the resources build action is…
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Application-wide designer initialization

Currently I am using static constructor for each Window/UserControl to perform some initialization, which is the same for all of them (initializing static property of some external library class, required for markup extensions located in this…
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VS 2015 Windows 10 Universal App Designer does not load

I am trying to build a Windows 10 Universal App in Visual Studio 2015 Community on a Windows 10 Professional machine (Developer mode is ON). However, the designer just will not load. There is no error message, it just stays stuck saying "Loading…
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XAML Designer crashes Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Community. So, I created a blank UW App (C++) and I wanted to start looking around, because that's my first time using the XAML Designer. However, with no changes to the code whatsoever, the designer won't load. The…
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Getting error in Visual Studio 2013 xaml designer and Blend (Exception 0x80073CF9)

Suddenly it stopped working. Even with new and blank projects. Visual Studio 2012 still working (at the same machine). Tried to repair and reinstall Visual Studio 2013 - no success. While trying to view xaml code in the designer I getting this…
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XAML UI Editor missing from visual studio 2012

I've installed Visual Studio 2012 after reformatting my computer. When I open a xaml file in a new empty wpf project, it opens it in a regular code editor and doesn't let me choose Design View (the option is just not there). Right-clicking the xaml…
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Shared resources in the xaml designer of the visual studio

If you try to use any shared resources with x:Shared="false" the xaml designer of the Visual Studio 2010 shows you following exception: System.InvalidOperationException Specified element is already the logical child of another element. Disconnect it…
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