The issue occurred on Visual Studio Community 2019 version 16.9.1.
The VS version mentioned above was just downloaded. I am trying to develop a mobile app, but the Xamarin Forms Previewer is missing and I can not enable it from the Option Tools.
For more information, please see the attached files.
Can you help me with a solution?
Thank you in advance!
The XAML Previewer has been deprecated in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.8, and replaced by the XAML Hot Reload feature in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.9.
For now, it use the Hot Reload insead and provide a live visual tree to receive a real-time view of your running XAML code. It shows a tree view of the UI elements of your running Xamarin.Forms application.
When you debug you project, by default, it appears on the IDE's left. If you don't see it, use Debug > Windows > Live Visual Tree to show it.
I also face the same problem today in visual studio 16.9.1. I am also not able to enable it from anywhere in Visual Studio
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i have installed Xamarin in visual studio 2015 community. But when i want to work in cross plate forms it displays error "Ios failed" and in solution explorer there is message with ios files (ios incompatible)
please help me how to fix it
Since you mentioned Visual Studio and iOS but no Mac I guess you problem is the Mac.
If you want to make an iOS App in Visual Studio and Xamarin forms you will need a Mac. Visual Studio will use it as a Xamarin Mac Agent. Visual Studio sends the "Code" to the Mac and the Mac will create the iOS App for you.
I have just installed Visual Studio 2017 community addition. Furthermore, i have installed Xamarin Community edition. Initially i thought i would have to use Xamarin Studio in order to create cross platform apps. But later on, i figured it out from the internet that Xamarin Studio is only installed in MAC OS. In windows, Xamarin is installed in form of Visual Studio's extension instead. After completely installing Xamarin on my Windows 10, i opened Visual Studio and i didn't saw "BlankApp (Xamarin.Forms Portable)" under Visual C#/Cross-Platform tab. Instead there were only couple of Class Libraries and a UI Test App there.
How can i figure out the way to create Xamarin Cross-Platform on my visual studio 2017 community edition? Am i missing some extensions, or is there any update required ? Please help.
File > New > Project > Installed > Templates > Visual C# > Cross-Platform
Select Cross-Platform
Select Cross Platform App (Xamarin.Forms or Native)
New App Dialog Opens
For template select "Blank App"
For Code Sharing Strategy Select "Portable Class Library (PCL)"
Click OK, and you are good to go
Please, try this site in section "Creating your first app".
More information in:
http://motzcod.es/post/158155898027/setting-up-vs-2017-for-xamarin-dev
THIS IS NOT A DIRECT ANSWER, I tried lots of options from installing, uninstalling, modifying but I can't find "bank app xamarin forms".
SO WHAT I DID, Installed visual studio 2015 and found "that bank app xamarin forms" there.
I've already edited the vstemplate file to change the version number from 11.0 to 12.0 like the answer to a similar question says on here, but that only makes Visual Studio crash after a create a Windows Store XAML Monogame project instead of giving me the version error. The project ends up getting created, but after I restart visual studio it doesn't want to open any of the source files even after I retarget the project to Windows 8.1. Im using visual studio 2013 express btw.
After a lot of problems, I found a better way of getting it to work.
First install Visual studio 2013 (or 2012, that will work too)
Download XNA 4.0 Refresh and install it
Download MonoGame 3.2 and install it
Then you can start using the MonoGame templates in Visual Studio without problems.
Haven't tried it for a Store app, but it fixed all my other problems with Visual Studio 2013 and MonoGame. I used Visual Studio 2013 Express for Desktop to test it.
I already made an application that is using Windows Forms, but I knew that Windows Forms setup was no longer available in Visual Studio 2013, that is made me to install both of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2013. When I want to make some changes in my application and re-build the setup, I have to run Visual Studio 2010 rather than Visual Studio 2013. The reason because I am using Visual Studio 2013, because I like this version and I am using Visual Studio 2010 just because for when I want to make some changes in my application.
I knew about WPF Applications when I finished made my application. And I am considering to uninstall Visual Studio 2010 and work with Visual Studio 2013. Do I have to re-write everything on my application's code to WPF? Because from what I heard, some functions in WPF are not the same in Windows Forms. And let's say that I successfully change my application from Windows Forms to WPF, what setup is provided with WPF ? So the other users could use my application on their computer?
i knew that Windows Forms setup has no longer available in Visual Studio 2013
Windows Forms is still available as a technology in Visual Studio 2013. If you are referring to the setup project type for creating an installer switching to WPF will not make it available for you.
So you can switch to Visual Studio 2013 and continue using Windows Forms but you will have to find another way to create an installer (and switching to WPF will not fix that problem).
In my opinion the ViX Toolset is very good for creating an installer. However, it is not "drag and drop" as the old Visual Studio Setup project type is.
#Kaoru You have to make some changes, Because some of functions in WPF and Win Forms are different.You don't need to change the Application Logic. But you have to change some modifications in UI and also code.
I heard a tool something called WF2WPF But I never used it and not found yet it.
If you are missing installer projects in VS 2013, then you may want to try Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension.
This preview release provides support for Visual Studio Installer projects in Visual Studio 2013. You can download the extension from the Visual Studio Gallery.
Does MVVM Light work with Visual C# Express? Can't seem to get any of the templates showing up.
At this point, I do not support Visual C# express for MVVM Light templates. I only support express editions for the Windows Phone and for Windows 8 (Visual Studio 11 for WinRT).
I will consider supporting Visual C# express in a further revision of the installer. Unfortunately supporting new versions of Visual Studio is quite a lot of work to update the MSI...
It's quite easy to take the templates and move them to the personal template directory and they appear in visual studio 2010 express.
But I can't find the WPF4 dll. In GalaSoft binary dir, there's Silverlight 3/4/5 and WP7/WP71, but no WPF.
According to the MVVM Light Toolkit Codeplex pages, it should. Did you explicitly follow the installation instructions given on this page?
MVVMLight is just MVVM framework. It has nothing to do with project template in Visual Studio. I think your problem is Visual Studio hasn't installed correctly.
Update:
In case WPF project template not show up, run VCSExpress.exe /InstallVSTemplates at your installation path, e.g. $\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress.exe /InstallVSTemplates