Visual Studio 2012 WPF Designer don't show. It show only the xaml source

Question

I have Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2010 then i upgraded to Visual Studio 2012.

When i open a .xaml file i can see only the xaml source and not the visual designer. With the 2010 version all works good.

I tried reinstalling and doing a reset of settings from command line but nothing changes. I have no errors. If i click on "Show projection window" it open again the xaml source and not the visual designer.

Why i can't see the visual designer? My PC is a HP 655 Notebook with 4GB RAM and ATI HD Raedon 7600 graphics card.

Thank you in advance. Mauro

Answer 1

I know I'm coming to this quite late, but one thing I found was going to:

Tools > Options > Text Editor > XAML > Miscellaneous

Then see if "Always open documents in full XAML view" is checked. If so, uncheck it. (VS2010)

Answer 2

I just had something like that, too, when I tried to 'reproduce' your situation by dragging the splitbar between designer and xaml all the way up. It disappeared and I couldn't get the desigener back by neither resetting the window layout nor by restarting VS. But my problem was solved simply by chosing View-Designer or Shift-F7. Good luck