Can't See Design Tab In Visual Studio Community 2017 For Mac

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In MS Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop:

I'm learning C# and following an example that shows how to create a user interface in a .xaml file. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj153219.aspx

It appears from the tutorial (see Figures 7 & 8) that there should be some windows showing the GUI. However, when I try to open the .xaml file in the Solution Explorer, View Code (Ctrl + Alt + 0) and View Designer (Shift + F7) both present the same thing: just the code. How do I open up the GUI box?

Update -- Here are the .xaml file contents. Note: I'm trying to open a new C# WPF Application. This is the stock code that Visual studio produces.

No XAML UI Designer option:

No Full XAML View Setting:Thanks!

This is the version of Visual Studio that I downloaded. The description leads me to believe that the XAML UI Designer should be installed and that this shouldn't be an issue.

Express 2013 for Windows Desktop

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Tools>Option>XAML Designer and enable XAML Designer worked for me.

PS: By default it is enabled. I disabled it due to VS performance issue and forgot about this change and end up facing same issue when I started working on WPF project.

Waqas AshrafWaqas Ashraf

I believe you are looking for XAML Designer and it can be loaded from here:

I am using Microsoft VS Community 2015 (final update)

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AhmarAhmar

I am not sure if I should post the answer here because it may not apply for VS Express 2013.

I have exactly the same problem using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.It turns out my project Target version is higher.

Try the following:

• Right click on your project in solution explorer.
• Change the Target version to Windows 10 (10.0; Build 10240).

Let me know if it is not relevant and I will delete my answer.

Cheers,Sam

SamSam

XML designer can be disabled by Resharper in Resharper > Options > Performance Guide
I fixed my problem by turning off Resharper block, and restoring XML designer in Tools > Options

B. CaesarB. Caesar

In VS2017 v15.8.9 I found the designer wasn't displaying e.g. when right clicking in a xaml view's code pane and selecting View Designer.

Performing the following resolved it for me:I went into Tools > Options > XAML Designer and the Enable XAML Designer option was ticked.So, I unticked it, clicked Ok on the Options dialog to close it.

I exited and restarted Visual Studio and again went into Tools > Options > XAML Designer, ticked the Enable XAML Designer, clicked Ok, restarted Visual Studio, and it's now working.

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Confirming Sam's answer for VS 2015; VS seems to have a reproducible feature:1. Create a new solution (Windows Universal, say)2. Create a new XAML view page in that solution3. If Designer won't load on that page, do what Sam says: Right click on your project in solution explorer and Change the Target version to Windows 10 (10.0; Build 10240).I had the same issue on a project, created a new test solution to explore the issue, and had the same problem. Sam's fix worked.

jbheliconjbhelicon

For some reason it used '(XML) Text Editor' as the default editor for XAML, to fix this you should right-click your file in the solution explorer then select 'Open with.' and select 'XAML UI Designer'

Eduardo WadaEduardo Wada

I have no idea what the issue was, but uninstalling and re-installing the same software did the trick.

Interesting

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Problem: XAML UI Designer not showing

Solutions: (different from and much more elegant than my earlier solution)

1. Click on the Solution file (.sln) in the Solution Explorer, if the .sln file is listed in theSolution Explorer
2. Click on the Expand Pane icon to display the Design pane, if it's shown

Solution 1: Open the .sln file:

My project is cloned from a git repository. When I open it from the Start Page it opens up with a whole list of files in the Solution Explorer. If I open any of the .xaml files from that Solution Explorer they open with a XML editor which doesn't show the graphical XAML view.

At the very bottom of the Solution Explorer is a .sln (solution) file. Opening that file then loads the file list I'm used to. If any .xaml files are open they will not have access to the Design view. Opening them and closing them at this point will load the Design view. If the Design view still doesn't appear see Solution 2 immediately below.

Solution 2: Click on Expand Pane:

At the bottom of the XAML editor window you may see a small icon with a double arrow (Expand Pane). If you do, it means that you've hidden the Design Pane. Click it and you should get the Design Pane back.

Version: Visual Studio 2017

Type of project: C# and WPF targetting .Net 4.5.2 with Console Application as the Output Type (for trouble-shooting purposes I've got it both as a WPF and a Console Application).

Problem Details:

I pulled a project I was working on from a git repository onto the problem computer (using all of Microsoft's in-built software and accounts). It was cloned successfully onto the problem computer and Visual Studio worked. After a pull from the repo the XAML UI Designer (Blend?) disappeared leaving me with only the XAML source.

An earlier solution I came across was to delete the source directory from my local computer and pull a fresh clone of the project. That fixed my problem, however, now I've played with it and found two other reasons my XAML Design View was missing. I imagine that I didn't need to delete the folder and that these two solutions would've been sufficient.

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FYI: This is a brute force method. I posted a much cleaner solution to my problem in a different answer.

Problem: XAML UI Designer not showing while using a git repository

Solution:Delete and recreate the project directory in %USERPROFILE%sourceRepos.

Steps:

1. Delete the project directory from %USERPROFILE%sourceRepos using File Explorer
2. Choose Checkout from Visual Studio Team Services on the Start Page

3. Pull the project again

   Warning: make sure your files are backed up!

Version: Visual Studio 2017

Type of project: C# and WPF targetting .Net 4.5.2 with Console Application as the Output Type (for trouble-shooting purposes I've got it both as a WPF and a Console Application).

Problem Details:

I pulled a project I was working on from a git repository onto the problem computer (using all of Microsoft's in-built software and accounts). It was cloned successfully onto the problem computer and Visual Studio worked. After a pull from the repo the XAML UI Designer (Blend?) disappeared leaving me with only the XAML source. The solution (after trying some of the others listed here) was to delete the source directory from my local computer and pull a fresh clone of the project.

Hint:

Deleting and re-creating the project may work for other cases as well. YMMV.

Eric DEric D

Picsart photo studio for mac computer. Most probably its set not to open the XAML in full XAML view. Try this

1. First click Tools >Options
2. Navigate to Text Editor >XAML >Miscellaneous
3. Uncheck the box that says Always open document in full XAML view.
4. Click OK, close the Options box and try opening again

If you don’t see Text Editor in the Options menu, check the box Show all Settings in the bottom left of the Options window.

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I had the same problem for a different reason. I had excluded-from-project the XAML file. When I clicked to edit it there was just the XAML code, no picture. It took a while to spot.

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I know this is an old topic but my solution might help someone in the future.

I ran into the same problem with Visual Studio 2015 Community on Windows 7, where one of my xamarin android project's xaml files stopped showing the Designer tab below the XAML code, the other day.

I tried all the given solutions with no effect however, following in the footsteps of @Waqas, i found out that 'Use quadrant based layout' was unchecked while other checkboxes were ticked. To summarize:

VS 2015 community>Tools>Option>XAML Designer> check Use quadrant based layout

I then quit and restarted Visual Studio to find out the Designer tab to be there at the bottom left of the XAML code, alongside the Source tab. HTH.

ContemplativeCyborgContemplativeCyborg

What helped me was just like many other problems with Xamarin designer, close all tabs, clean solution, delete bin and obj folders, rebuild the solution

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As of now, a designer has not been created for projects targeting .NET Core 3.

kot83kot83

This is my situation but might not apply to yours: I had the same issue but the fix is simple. Somehow my program is still running even I closed my WPF window. I have to stop debugging and then the designer page will automatically show up for me. Hope this works.

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One of the more popular extensions is Microsoft’s Productivity Power Tools. Over the last year, we’ve been reconfiguring the Power Tools to be a discrete set of extensions, and today we’re making many of them available in Visual Studio 2017.

Also, today we’re making available a preview of the Python Tools. We wanted to ensure that you have access to the Python tooling, as we are finishing up the full localization to enable us to publish them in a future minor update to all interested Visual Studio 2017 users.

Try it out and please give feedback

By now, Visual Studio 2017 may have finished installing for you. If it has, great! I’d like to address two questions we get asked a lot:

• Can I install Visual Studio 2017 alongside Visual Studio 2015? Yes. Visual Studio 2017 works side by side with these previous versions of Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2017 can’t run side by side with an RC or preview version of Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio “15”.
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If you have further questions, read the Visual Studio 2017 FAQ for other commonly asked questions. Want to know more about compatibility, check out Visual Studio 2017 compatibility and Visual Studio 2017 system requirements. Also, be sure to read this article to learn about offline installations.

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Visual Studio 2017 has a lot of new and improved features for you to try. For the complete list of what is included in this release, along with some known issues, check out the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes.

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John Montgomery, Director of Program Management, Visual Studio @JohnMont John is responsible for product design and customer success for all of Visual Studio, C++, C#, VB, JavaScript, and .NET. John has been at Microsoft for 18 years, working in developer technologies the whole time.