Visual Studio 2008 Xaml Editor not working / disappeared

Question

When I start up VS 2008 to work on a WPF / Silverlight App and open a XAML or XML file the XAML / XML editor is no longer working. The designer does not show up and intelli

Answer 1

The designer for XAML is awful. Do yourself a favour and set your XAML files to open in the code viewer instead; they'll load quicker and you won't have to deal with the designer's flakiness.

However, to fix the intellisense, just re-register TextMgrP.dll using regsvr32 as indicated here.

Answer 2

It looks like there is an XML package that was previously not loaded, see other question here; Visual Studio 2008 XML Editor Disappeared

Also, there is an answer on the Silverlight forums that describes using the "devenv /setup" command that can be found in (VS2008InstallationDirectory)\IDE.

Answer 3

If you right click the file, select "Open With", and then choose "Windows Presentation Foundation Designer", does that work? If so, most likely the default editor for .xaml files has changed. You can reset this back to the designer by pressing "Set as Default" when the designer you want is selected in the list in the Open With dialog.

Answer 4

Try running the following command.

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\ide\devenv" /resetSkipPkgs

If that doesn't work try repairing the Visual Studio Install

• Start -> Control Panel
• Add Remove Programs
• Select VS
• Choose repair

Answer 5

i had similar problems when i installed VS2008 Professional over an existing VS2008 Express edition. Suddenly my XAML designer stopped working . i got failed loading the XAML dll error. So i just uninstalled all VS Express stuff and then installed VS 2008 SP1 fixed all things.

try link below for VS 2008 SP1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=27673C47-B3B5-4C67-BD99-84E525B5CE61&displaylang=en

Answer 6

I've seen this problem before, running this command should fix it :

Devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs