Designer View Disappeared (Visual Studios C#)

Question

I am making a soundboard and I accidentally closed the design view tab for it.

1. I pressed shift + f7 - nothing happened.
2. I right clicked on forum1.cs in Solution Explorer and Design View wasn't there.
3. I clicked on view at the top left corner of Visual Studios and Design View wasn't there.

How can I get design view back? (I'm also new to c#)

Answer 1

First class in namespace must inherit from Form.

Example of working code:

namespace Test
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
         Debug.WriteLine("Hello World!")
    }
    class your_class
    {

    }
}

Example of "not" working code:

Namespace Test
{
    class your_class
    {

    }
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
         Debug.WriteLine("Hello World!")
    }
}

Answer 2

Hi I tried solution from this link ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/59750247/3828925 ) which seems to work for me finally after trying a lot of different things. Basically you click on the "Switch between solutions and available views" once which shows just the solution and then click again. It takes a few seconds but then I was able to see my forms.

Answer 3

have you checked under Tools>Options then scroll to XAML Designer and make sure the "Enable XAML Designer (requires restart of Visual Studio)" checkbox is clicked on? This is for Visual Studio 2017