Cannot get Xamarin Xaml Intellisense working in VS 2015

Question

I\'ve been trying to get intellisense working for quite some time now, and am unable to see anything outside of

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Answer 1

Seems I had to completely uninstall Resharper, not just disable it. Then reinstall the Enable XAML Language for Xamarin Forms extension.

Answer 2

I resolved this issue by doing a simple workaround and here is the solution.

Right-click the XAML file in the Solution Explorer and select

Solution 1: "Open With... > Source Code (Text) Editor".

and in another time this also worked for me:

Solution 2: "Open With... > Source Code (Text) Editor with Encoding"

Actually, I found that for me it even worked by simply choose: Solution 2: "Open With... > Automatic Editor Selector (XML)" and then reopening VS.

I also found that the problem began after editing .xaml file outside of VS, by right-clicking the file and choose "Edit".

Answer 3

This worked for me:

right click on .xaml file and then select "Open With.." and select "XAML Designer" and also "Set as Default" then intellisense worked great.

Answer 4

Jeff's answer almost worked for me, but I had to do one additional step:

Because I had previously uninstalled and reinstalled Xamarin, I had to update from 4.0.1 to the latest stable (4.1.1.3 as of this date). After that Intellisense started working!

Answer 5

I install the Extension Enable XAML Language for Xamarin.Forms from

Enable XAML Language for Xamarin.Forms

Still the intellisense was not working. I just need to close all tabs and close the visual studio. After re-starting Visual studio I open solution and XAML file. The instellisense is working fine.

Answer 6

Extensions > Tools > Enable XAML Language for Xamarin.Forms

Enable XAML Language for Xamarin.Forms

Enables the VS built-in XAML language service to provide editing and intellisense for Xamarin.Forms XAML files.

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8195a8e2-a842-4389-a8cb-34e4672e2e13

Update:

From @Jeff:

Seems I had to completely uninstall Resharper, not just disable it. Then reinstall the "Enable XAML Language for Xamarin Forms extension".

Additional info:

http://www.cazzulino.com/enable-xaml-forms-intellisense.html

Xamarin XAML Enabled:

XML Enabled and thus no Xamarin XAML Intellisense: