From the course: Microsoft XAML: 1 Core Concepts
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Work with the Visual Studio XAML tools
From the course: Microsoft XAML: 1 Core Concepts
Work with the Visual Studio XAML tools
- [Narrator] XAML files are XML text files, so any text editor will be adequate for editing and viewing the content. For a more fulfilling editing experience, use the XAML editors in Visual Studio. This is a WPF project. I have a MainWindow.xaml file here. I'll double click on it to open the designer. I don't want to see the designer part of the screen. All I want to do is work with the text part of this editor. What I'll do is I'll swap the panes and put the text on the top, and then click this Collapse button, which will collapse the bottom half of the screen. Now I'm looking at just the text editor. Visual Studio has a number of tools that enhance my typing ability and make it easier to decide what to enter in my XAML. Here's some examples. In between the beginning and ending Grid tags, I'll type in the open angle bracket, or the less than sign. Visual Studio shows an auto completion list. This list contains elements and other XML that Visual Studio thinks are appropriate for this…
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