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I have the following situation. I installed Visual Studio Update 3 last night. Now I have a problem that when I open my projects (Universal Apps) which i have done while i had update 2, my designer won't load and it throws an exception:
Does anyone knows how to solve this? I guess this is not a bug because probably everything was tested by Microsoft, and this is not RC update. Im about to delete this update if i don't figure out the solution. I'm guessing that it might have to do with xaml if anything changed?
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This article lists the known issues that you may experience after you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. You cannot start Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 2013 after you upgrade to Windows 8.1 The April 2014 release of the Windows SDK is incompatible with Visual Studio 2013 RTM or Update 1 version for graphics debugging
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 includes the latest software updates, feature additions, and bug fixes. More information about Visual Studio product updates is also available on the Visual Studio website. Visual Studio 2013 updates are cumulative releases.
You cannot start Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 2013 after you upgrade to Windows 8.1 The April 2014 release of the Windows SDK is incompatible with Visual Studio 2013 RTM or Update 1 version for graphics debugging You experience performance issues, product crashes, or rendering issues in Visual Studio 2013
By using Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, you are no longer limited to a small set of Application counters that will be monitored together with the load run. Now you can select any performance counters from Application Insights that you want to view with your load run. Obtain the performance counters by using the following option:
I figured out from the connect bulletin that there are two folders in your Windows profile that need to have their contents cleared out in order for the Visual Studio designer to work with Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.
The two folders are:
For Blend: AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Blend\ShadowCache
For Visual Studio 2013: AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Designer\ShadowCache
Don't delete these folders, just delete the content of those folders and you will be back to working happily with the XAML designer again.
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Clearing the ShadowCache did not resolve this for me. Found a clue from an MSDN article and checked the event viewer for exceptions, look for XDesProc.exe.
The problem was an out of date driver for my graphics card.
Once that was updated all started working again
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