Currently when i have a problem (like errors and warnings, that are resolved but are still present in the ErrorList or to reload assemblies used by the designer) with the XAML-Designer in Visual Studio 2012 and i need to restart it, i open ProcessExplorer and kill the child-process XDesProc.exe
of the running Visual Studio 2012 instance. This results in that Visual Studio 2012 displays an Unhandled Exception Designer process terminated unexpectedly!
and provides me the option to reload the designer.
Is there a better or build-in way in Visual Studio 2012 to restart the designer. Reopening XAML-Files often do not help to solve the problems.
To open the XAML Designer, right-click a XAML file in Solution Explorer and choose View Designer. to switch which window appears on top: either the artboard or the XAML editor.
Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio provide a XAML Designer that helps you build user interfaces (UI) for WPF, UWP, and Xamarin. Forms apps. You can drag controls from the Toolbox or Assets window and set properties in the Properties window.
XAML is a lightweight XAML Editor. While coding, the corresponding design preview can be displayed in real time.
Windows Presentation Foundation is a UI framework that creates desktop client applications. The WPF development platform supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding, documents, and security.
My solution (credit to Ellistraee)
And it should work!
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