Where disappeared XAML designer for Universal Windows app in Visual Studio 2015 Update1?
It is working for wpf and window 8.1 apps and XAML designer is enabled in Tools->Option->XAML Designer
To open this page, choose the Tools menu and then choose Options. To access the XAML Designer property page, choose the XAML Designer node. Settings for the XAML Designer are applied when you open the document. So, if you make changes to the settings, you need to close and then reopen Visual Studio to see the changes.
If you don't see the Blank App (Universal Windows) project template, click the Install more tools and features link. The Visual Studio Installer launches. Choose the Universal Windows Platform development workload, and then select Modify. Give the project a name, HelloWorld, and choose Create.
Topics in this section also document the XAML language as it's used by the UWP and basic to advanced scenarios about how to use XAML to define the UI for your UWP app.
WPF is another UI framework, and UWP uses many concepts that you find in WPF, like XAML, data binding, styles etc. That means that a WPF developer gets up to speed with UWP quite fast, and vice versa. But WPF is not a UI framework that C++ developers can use, for WPF you have to develop with .
Change the Target Version to (10.0; Bulid 10240)
See the notification asking to update Windows -
I was having the same problem. Updated windows from windows update as instructed by the VS2015 notification and now it is fixed.
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