I've got an idea for a nice WPF designer extension, but I can't find any information on how to interact with the WPF designer via an extension. Lots of info about the text editor, but none about the WPF designer. Important note: I'm looking to do this through an extension, like you'd download from the Visual Studio Gallery, rather tha...
I wish I knew what I did to cause this, but I cannot use the Visual Studio 2008 Designer at all with with MVVMLight templates. I receive a "Could not create an instance of type 'ViewModelLocator'. in any of my xaml pages. The application builds and runs fine but only the designer is broken. In the App.xaml is <Application x:Class="Ex...
The wired problem is, in VS 2008, everything works fine. In VS2010 while serializing, it is missing the "ReportDimensionElements" so I'm unable to get the values back from the serialized value back from the XAML. It says, "'ReportDimensionElements' is null" am I missing anything silly. Note: I have marked the ReportDimensionElements cla...
Is there a way to debug Visual Studio or Blend so I can figure out where XAML designer load errors come from in my code? The stack traces are often useless. Thanks... ...
I'm getting an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when I try to reload the Designer for my XAML UserControl. Visual Studio highlights the following line as being the problem: <local:TemplateDetail Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Width="600" TemplateData="{Binding ElementName=cbo_templates,...
class MyLine : Shape { public static readonly DependencyProperty X11Property; public static readonly DependencyProperty X22Property; public static readonly DependencyProperty Y11Property; public static readonly DependencyProperty Y22Property; static MyLine() { X11Property = DependencyProperty.Register("X11", ...
I've discovered to my great annoyance, that once I move a color gradient or some other complex style to a resource dictionary it is out of Expression Blend's Visual Studio WPF Designer Thingy's jurisdiction and must be edited in XAML. I have no issues with working in XAML except that it is more time intensive than a designer. So my que...