Configure Xamarin.Forms XAML intellisense in Visual Studio
There is a plugin available for Visual Studio to enable intellisense for Xamarin.Forms XAML.
Don’t believe me. Here is how I saw before the XAML intellisense is installed.
Let’s configure it in Visual Studio.
Open Visual Studio. Go to Tools > Options.
Choose Extensions and Updates from the dialog under Environment node. Click on Add. It will add a default item to the list. Set the item name and URL as http://gallery.mobileessentials.org/feed.atom. Click on Apply and OK.
By this end of process, we are done in adding the extension link to the Visual Studio. Now time to download and install.
Let’s open Tools > Extensions and Updates. We can see the Xamarin.Forms Intellisense there. Click on Download and follow the dialog instruction to install it.
After successful installation, it will ask to restart the Visual Studio. So that the changes can be applied to the IDE. Once done we can see the difference.
Few points to keep in mind:
- This component is still not stable. But works great (for me).
- Incase you found, it is not working after the VS restart. Please do a manual restart of VS.
- Works with VS 2012 or later
Hope this helps 🙂
Categories: Cross Platform Mobile App, Visual Studio, Xamarin, XAML
Hi, Nirmal Hota i tried the above steps for intellisense in xamarin forms even i can’t able to get in Visual Studio please help Nirmal ji ….
Hi Premnath,
Sorry for my delayed response. I was off for a vacation. I saw your post in linkedin and it looks like it is solved after restarting.
Please let me know if you still have issue.
With thanks,
Nirmal
Thanks Nirmal ji for your response please Share more links or sample project for webservices in Xamarin . Forms
please help ji …
The intended functionality of showing Xaml object intellisense is working fine.
But there is a side effect: After installing this extension, I am not able to open
1. “Manage NuGet Package Reference…” dialog from solution explorer –> Project References context menu.
2. “Extensions and Updates…” dialog from VS –> Tools
Configuration:
1. VS2013 Professional Edition
2. Win7 OS
Hi Hanuman,
Thanks for the info. I have never tried with VS 2013 pro. I will try once with earlier possible time.
I followed the instructions and installed the utility. Unfortunately, I can not add any items into any Visual Studio project after the installation. When I go to Tools -> Extensions to attempt to uninstall, I get an error and am unable to continue. Is there any way to manually uninstall this extension?
And just to be clear, I’m not complaining or mad, just trying to understand how to remove the extension. 🙂
Hi Wallace,
What is the error you are getting ? Also in which version of VS ?