This is useful to check alignment, or focus on specific parts of a large window. Zoom – Ctrl+Wheel on mouse (or Ctrl +/-) will zoom the preview window in and out.Some interesting things that you can do already with the XAML Live Preview feature: However, I’m already excited about what this feature will mean for XAML developers I’ve already noticed a number of occasions when the rendering isn’t correct or that the hover/selection borders don’t align with the actual controls. You can make changes to the XAML which will be reflected in both the running application and the XAML Live Preview window.Īs the announcement of this feature points out, this is the first time we’re seeing this feature and it’s very early days. The nice part of this feature is that if you’re building out the design of your application you don’t need to continually be switching between Visual Studio and the running application. Currently this is in preview for WPF applications but you can imagine that this will come to all XAML platforms over time.Įssentially, the XAML Live Preview feature mirrors your running application into a tool window within Visual Studio, as you can see in the following image.Īs this is a regular Visual Studio tool window, you can undock and reposition the window as you see fit. Looks like I preempted a new feature that’s coming to Visual Studio 2022 called XAML Live Preview. Earlier this year I shared a post, Visual Designer, Hot Reload and Beyond, where I talked about how I thought the future of designers would evolve.
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