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Visual Studio XAML editor that ignores keystrokes on the properties tab

Sometimes, editing my Window in the XAML editor, the properties tab simply blocks it from receiving any key press, I can’t even add events, I need to restart VS to work again. I can still edit using XAML code, but the properties are read-only.

Am I the only one who has this problem? Any workaround?

btw: WPF desktop

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There is a workaround posted by Tuan Tran 2 on 09/10/2014 at 19:36 Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET Framework homepage :

  • Open Notepad, copy and paste this code snippet: taskkill /f /im XDesProc.exe

  • Save it with the .bat extension.

  • Run the file by double-clicking it when the property windows do not respond.

... or instead, just run the XDesProc.exe process in the task manager.

Then Visual Studio will prompt you to run the constructor again. For what I read, Microsoft knows about this error, but there is no status yet. Hope they resolve the problem very soon.

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I had the same problem, but for me even rebooting VS did not work. I even tried restarting the PC and uninstalling the recently installed programs. nothing helped.

The actual problem in my case was,

I could edit .cs files, but I could not edit xaml files. Only I could add line breaks in xaml. I spent many hours and finally found that the problem was with Jetbrains Resharper.

I installed Resharper a few days ago, and after using the rating, I suspended the license to use the rating effectively. (In the resharper menu, you have the option to allow pause). So, when the evaluation is suspended, I could not edit xaml fils, and in the end I had to resume the evaluation or remove the restart completely.

IMO is unfair with Jetbrains.

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