Why can't Visual Studio find my WPF InitializeComponent method?

Question

This is very strange.

I have an XAML file that looks as follows...

<Window     x:Name="window"     x:Class="ix.Production.Title"     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     Title="Title" Height="768" Width="1024"     Loaded="window_Loaded">      <Window.Resources>    etc... 

And my code-beside that looks as follows...

using System; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Media.Animation; using System.Threading;  namespace ix.Production {     public partial class Title : Window     {         public Title()         {            InitializeComponent();         }     .... 

This code refuses to compile because Visual Studio insists that the InitializeComponent "does not exist in the current context."

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

One case I have seen this happening in when you copy paste an XAML control/window, etc. The InitializeComponent method exists in a corresponding .g.cs file that is automatically generated. In my case, after copy paste, Build Action for the XAML (in Properties window) was changed to "Resource". I changed it to "Page", and it started working fine.

I hope this helps.

The thread which helped me with this was The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist....