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3 replies. Latest Post by Yi-Lun Luo - MSFT on March 11, 2008.
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jonmiller
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03-09-2008 5:43 PM |
I'm running VS2008 with the Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 tools and SDK installed. I can create a new project. However I'm confused on how to use the form designer. When I click on a Silverlight control in the tools box and then click on part of the form nothing happens. I cannot drag a control from the toolbox to the form either. I've tried all of the different toolbox items. Any idea what is wrong? I figure it is either broken or there is something ridiculously simple I'm missing. Any help would be appreciated.
starsign
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03-09-2008 5:56 PM |
The form designer view is read only, you can drag / drop controls on to the xaml code and it is reflected on the form designer. Make sure you set width / height properties for controls that default to zero for those properties otherwise you won't see anything.
03-10-2008 1:22 PM |
Really? Do you think that is a beta limitation? It seems odd that we can't drag/drop directly on the designer. Thanks.
Yi-Lun L...
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03-11-2008 6:55 AM |
Sorry for the limitation. Our developers are working hard on it to enable design experience in Visual Studio. For now, you can use Expression Blend. It has much more features than VS designer.
Silver 2.0 B1 Tools for VS2008 trouble