How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

Author: 5Elements | Posted: 7. August 2011 10:11 0

If you work in XAML pages, sometime you might noticed that the XAML page freezes for sometime while opening the page in design view. This is very annoying and many time it is responsible to crash the Visual Studio IDE. So what to do?

 

If you use Expression Blend to design the XAML page or don't want to open the XAML in design view, this small tip will help you to improve the performance of the IDE. Read more to know.

 

If you noticed that your Visual Studio IDE freezes or crashes while opening any XAML file, just follow the below mentioned steps to enable the IDE to open the page always in XAML view instead of the Design view.

 

Inside the Visual Studio IDE, go to the Tools menu and click on the "Options" menu item to open up the options dialog as shown below:

 

Inside the options dialog, expand the "Text Editor" tree item and find out the XAML tree as shown below. Expand the XAML tree item too and select the "Miscellaneous" item. This will open the miscellaneous tab in the right panel. Find out the section called "Default View" and make sure that the checkbox titled "Always open documents in full XAML view" is checked; if not, just check it to enable the feature. Click "OK" to save the settings.

Now, whenever you open any XAML file in Visual Studio, it will open that in full XAML view and make your IDE responsive. Hope this tip help you to improve your productivity. If this helped you, please drop a line below and help me to come with some other new tips for you. Enjoy coding...

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Are your website color schemes ... quite right?

Author: 5Elements | Posted: 6. August 2011 07:52 1

It's no secret that website color schemes are a vital component of web design. If you're just beginning to design, I should say that it may become no secret when the website you're building seems to have the right elements, the design works ... but somehow it doesn't look quite right.

It may be that the color scheme is a bit "off".

If so, that's what your website visitors will perceive. They may not know why, but it won't look right to them. Thus, website color schemes form a vital part of your visitors' impression of your website.

One can spend an excessive amount of time on color schemes: worrying over whether you've selected the "right" color scheme, adjusting, correcting, balancing the colors, and updating other elements on the site as you go. This is time consuming and may be frustrating — particularly if you never solve it.

While this article is intended to address the issue of color schemes from a marketing point of view -- and I'm going to point you to a couple of terrific tools — let's address this in a logical order.

 

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Website Designing

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