I have just started with WPF so am probably missing something simple here. I have a window that I am editing in VS 2010. When I change the XAML by hand and then run the application (F5) the window remains as before my edit, however if I do a rebuild and then run the application my changes show up.
Is there any way to get VS to recognise that I have changed my XAML file and recompile it automatically when I press F5?
You can change a VS setting to save all files before Build/Run. Go to
Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Build and Run
Update Before building and On Run, when projects are out of date values to Save all changes and Always build respectively.
It turns out that my UI project was not set to build in the configuration I had selected. Although it was set to build in Debug x86 I had set the current config to Debug Any CPU.