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A view in a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool that allows you to design what the user sees.

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Is there any graphical designer for ASP.NET MVC?

I guess that most people that use Visual Studio had my same reaction when they created their first ASP.NET MVC project: where did the Design View end up? When using classic Web Forms to develop an application in Visual Studio, the Design View is…
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How to make textAlignment under TextView visible in Android Studio 3.1.2 in the attributes?

I'm following an online tutorial about Android Studio. But in the video clip, the instructor use textAlignment which is under textAppearance which is under textView under Attributes. In Design View. I looked on the developer website but couldn't…
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Class always tries to open in Design View, not Code View

I have a class named Print.cs that always stubbornly opens in Design View, when I need to see its Code View (F7). It also has a different icon to the rest of my classes in the Solution Explorer. I've looked in the Properties and can't see anything…
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Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone not showing correct Design View

For some reason Visual Studio is showing me this weird, ugly skeleton design view when I try building Mango apps instead of the regular fully detailed view I used to get with the old 7.0 apps. Any idea what setting I need to change to revert back…
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Android Studio: Hide Navigation bar?

Is there a way to hide the Navigation bar (back, home settings etc..) in Design View? --- essentially showing my app full screen (except for the pull down action bar)
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How do I force Visual Studio design view to render with Classic theme?

My problem is as follows: I design my WPF application in Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8. I know that the application is only going to be used in Windows XP classic mode. What I'm seeing in the design view of Visual Studio doesn't match my eventual…
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VS2008 partially freezing when switching to HTML design view

This is an odd freeze. When I switch from source view to design view for an HTML or ASPX file, the client area freezes, but I can still click on other tabs and menus. What am I missing here? Really don't feel like reinstalling VS2008.
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Controls on Form Not Shown in Designer

I am working on a WinForms project, and I have a form where I have a DataGrid, a TextBox, and 2 button controls (btnNew and btnSearch). The click event of a btnSearch is supposed to perform a search on the DataGrid. I deleted the event handler for…
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Can I prevent SharpDevelop design view from setting a property's value in InitializeComponent?

I am finding that Design View (DV) is nice, but trying to change the way it automagically injects code into InitializeComponent is very hard. And sometimes its automagical code breaks the program. For example, DV automatically sees every single…
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Expression Blend Error - Value cannot be null. Parameter name: stream

I'm getting the above error when trying to load a User Control xaml file in design view in Expression Blend 4. The xaml itself runs successfully in VS 2010, and I can view the xaml in blend, but not in design view. When viewing the xaml in 'xaml…
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How to get to design view on Visual Studio 2013?

This is driving me insane. I keep clicking on the form I want to see but it just keeps showing me the code for it as oppose to the actual form. I'm on Visual Basic on visual studio if that helps.
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Disable Property in Design View Property Grid

I want to expose some properties in my custom control. I require to get input for three parameters that I expose as Browsable properties from the control. Based on input for one property the other two might not be required. How can I disable/hide…
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Why am I getting a XAML Designer Error in every single one of my Design Views?

I am getting this error in the XAML Designer View in every single one of my XAML views: The .NET Core 3.0 runtime for 'x64' platform configuration is missing or damaged. Please download and install .NET Core 3.0 SDK for the 'x64' platform. (Exit…
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How to enable Windows Forms Design View in Visual Studio 2019

I'm starting with the Head First C# book and right off the bat I can't get my screen to look like how it looks in the book. It wants me to open Visual Studio, create a new Windows Forms Application and the picture they have shows Design View which…
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How do I edit a WPF DataTemplate in VS 2010 Design view?

How do I edit a WPF DataTemplate (or similar) in VS 2010 Design view? Is that even possible? I would love it if I could drag and drop template items (such as TextBlocks) around like I can with normal (non-template) items. Doing so makes…
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