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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:32 PM

Hello friends, today I have updated my Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 to 15.6.5 version. But I found a problem, when I'm navigating in my source code of Xamarin project. Previously, when I pressed F7 in Xaml editor, Visual Studio showed me the CS source. In the same way, when i pressed Shift+F7, Visual Studio showed me Xaml editor. But now, Visual Studio is showing me alert "There is no editor available for....Make sure the application is installed for the type of file (.xaml).

Some one know how to fix it?

Ty for your help.

Make sure the application is installed for the type of file

Make sure the application is installed for the type of file

Make sure the application is installed for the type of file

Make sure the application is installed for the type of file

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Thursday, April 12, 2018 9:42 AM

Hi ArtechSoft,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

I test it in my visual studio and pressing F7 does nothing, everything is ok after changing editor. So, please right click on .xaml file->open with->choose Xaml Designer with encoding and set it as default, press F7 and check it if the issue persists. If everything is ok, you can change it back.

Best regards,

Joyce

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Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:35 PM

Already I tried it yesterday, but doesn´t work.

Have you updated your Visual Studio to 15.6.5?

Friday, April 13, 2018 2:44 AM

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

I test with visual studio 2017 15.6.3 and it can allow the F7 key to view CS source yesterday, but I update another visual studio 2017 to the latest version 15.6.6 later, pressing F7 does nothing after it finished.

The others who has the similar issue with you has reported it to Microsoft production team:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/24601/designer-for-xamarin-xaml-is-not-working.html

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/163039/view-code-on-xaml-files-in-shared-project-xamarin.html

You can also submit a feedback by yourself in visual studio 2017, click Help->seed feedback->report a problem.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,

Joyce

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