VS 2008 SP1 XAML Designer Problem Workaround
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I was mentioning to Pete a couple weeks ago how I often have problems working with XAML in Visual Studio which kept me kind of discouraged about using it, and the wonderful add-on tools available from him and Karl. This morning, after a couple weeks of error-free development and really getting into the VS designer (over Blend), again I couldn't work with any XAML files. Visual Studio crashed before I got through my first cup of coffee. Time to report this to MS. It took about 30 seconds to find the already-filed bug report (don't know why I couldn't find it months ago...wrong keywords I guess). Here it is: WPF Designer fails to load in VS.NET 2008 SP1 (RTM)[^] The workaround fixed me instantly. I never imagined setting the startup project to a Win32 or MFC project would be associated with the XAML designer. I never made that association while I was working - it just seemed random. Maybe this will help someone else (or maybe I'm the only one that still works with native projects) :) Cheers, Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I was mentioning to Pete a couple weeks ago how I often have problems working with XAML in Visual Studio which kept me kind of discouraged about using it, and the wonderful add-on tools available from him and Karl. This morning, after a couple weeks of error-free development and really getting into the VS designer (over Blend), again I couldn't work with any XAML files. Visual Studio crashed before I got through my first cup of coffee. Time to report this to MS. It took about 30 seconds to find the already-filed bug report (don't know why I couldn't find it months ago...wrong keywords I guess). Here it is: WPF Designer fails to load in VS.NET 2008 SP1 (RTM)[^] The workaround fixed me instantly. I never imagined setting the startup project to a Win32 or MFC project would be associated with the XAML designer. I never made that association while I was working - it just seemed random. Maybe this will help someone else (or maybe I'm the only one that still works with native projects) :) Cheers, Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
BTW - there's a new MoXAML available
Cool! Thanks for the heads-up! :) Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: