Sunday, September 27, 2009
Making Design/Preview mode friendly in VS2008
We're all familiar with how Visual Studio doesn't make perfect use of the Design view for *.XAML pages. We also have fun getting the Design view to show itself: http://weblogs.asp.net/hpreishuber/archive/2009/07/18/silverlight-3-visual-studio-2008-designer-preview.aspx
<canvas name="LayoutRoot">
<canvas.rendertransform>
<translatetransform x="-500" y="-500">
</Canvas.RenderTransform>
<!-- Control content ... -->
Even after it's shown it's doesn't like to properly center the image. I found the easyiest way to make Design mode friendly is to add a TranslateTransform to the Layout root. Then manipulate the X and Y values until it shows up properly in the Design view:
<canvas name="LayoutRoot">
<canvas.rendertransform>
<translatetransform x="-500" y="-500">
</Canvas.RenderTransform>
<!-- Control content ... -->
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