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No Designer View in VS

I have just recently tried to load up Cider in the VS 2005 RTM, but for I do not see the Designer Tab anywhere. I do see the DataGrid view when looking at the xaml.

I have the latest January Orcas CTP release and see the new templates installed when I create a new WinFX project.

The WinFX Runtime Components - January (CTP) are installed and the Windows? (SDK) January 2006 WinFX Runtime Components (CTP) are installed as well.

I am running the new Sparkle release and it seems that everything is installed ok, since I can use that program.

What am I missing here?

Thanks for the help.

Lions

Try launching Visual Studio from the command line like this:

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

This will ensure that the Cider package doesn?? get skipped if Cider ever failed to load before.

Marco Goertz | Cider | Microsoft | This post is provided "as-is".

mgoertz - msft

Thanks for the quick response, but using that command did not do anything to improve my situation.

Is there something else that I am missing here?

Lions

I tried repairing the ocras ctp by running winfxsetup.exe. I then reboot my computer and reloaded VS. I still got that DataGrid view when look at the xaml.

I tried running the command devenv with the switch and got the same results.

Hopefully, some has another soltion.

Thanks for the help.

Lions

> I tried repairing the ocras ctp by running winfxsetup.exe

Just to make sure that we are talking about the same thing here. Cider is included in the ??icrosoft Visual Studio Code Name ??rcas??Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX®??(vsextwfx.msi) that can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5A0AE4CD-DC79-4B12-8A05-B6195F89FFA2&displaylang=en

Winfxsetup.exe installs the WinFX Runtime Components (this does not include any ??rcas??preview technology):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61DD9CA7-1668-42E4-BD37-03716DD83E53&displaylang=en

So make sure you install (or repair if necessary) the vsextwfx.msi.

Marco Goertz | Cider | Microsoft | This post is provided "as-is".

mgoertz - msft

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