Silverlight 3 Visual Studio 2008 Designer Preview

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Documentation says that Design Preview in Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 is away. The preview with Silverlight 2 was only read only and sucks. OK is bad but no preview is even worse. When you right click a XAML file there is still context menu “view Designer”.

So why? Cause designer is still here- but hidden!

move mouse to bottom of XAML editor.

No mousecoursor is a double arrow which can be drag by mouse down to upper direction.

Now click relaod and ready.

After closing file- designer setting is away. Perhaps i find a solution somewhere in template settings.

11 Comments

Now this is funny! It really works, thanks, Hannes.

jakubk - Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:05:49 PM

i can only see horizontal no vertical... my house monitor doesnt tilt 90 degrees.

ffs - Monday, July 20, 2009 3:56:03 AM

The splitter is only like 1 pixel wide (vertically), so, unless you stop the mouse cursor right on top of it, you won't see the arrow.

Jon - Monday, July 20, 2009 2:42:14 PM

Dude, this has already been blogged about....

Anon - Monday, July 20, 2009 10:38:14 PM

Hi

It helped allot for my team.
Thanx

VenkatRamana-Tech Lead - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:19:18 AM

Great, is very helpful

Carlos Ronny de Sousa - Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:16:50 PM

This solution does not work for me (upgrade from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 3, using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition).

Jon Bublic - Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:33:18 PM

thanks it really helped me..

raja - Friday, February 19, 2010 7:52:42 PM

Great! Thanks a lot!

eXistenZ - Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:34:36 AM

Get the following error on clicking on Reload link. And also tried to repair VS20008, but still the same error. Any ideas?

Type 'MS.Internal.Permissions.UserInitiatedNavigationPermission' in Assembly 'PresentationFramework, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' is not marked as serializable.

Manish C - Friday, December 24, 2010 11:54:40 AM

Thanks with this solution i m able to get the designer but after the xaml designer is opened it is still disabled. i mean i am not able to place any control on it like i used to do that using framwork 4.0 any idea ?

Priya - Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:36:49 AM

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