Why is the Xamarin.Forms toolbox view empty？

Question

Visual Studio for Mac 7.0

I'm a new to use the Ide

image

in the picture，the toolbox is empty。

I entered it by hand

 <Button Text="ok"/>

No code hints

How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

This is working as expected. There is no visual designer for Xamarin.Forms. XAML must be written manually. You can however use the XAML previewer to assist you.

The Preview button can be displayed on the editor by right-clicking a XAML file, and selecting Open With > XAML Viewer. The preview pane can then be shown or hidden by pressing the Preview button in the top-right corner of any XAML document window

Information about the previewer can be found here: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-previewer/