App.Xaml cannot be edited in design view(Visual Studio 2012 for Window Store).

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 App.Xaml cannot be edited in design view(Visual Studio 2012 for Window Store).

Answer 1

That is expected. App.xaml is the application's startup page and it will load other pages which you can edit. For example, if you create a simple C#/XAML app, your app.xaml will navigate to Mainpage.xaml which will be the starting page for your app. You can edit MainPage.xaml in the designer.

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Answer 2

So what the solution would be?

Answer 3

@Niso.z, what solution are you asking for here? App.xaml is just the startup page of the app from which you can navigate to the actual UI pages of your app. There is nothing to be designed visually in the App.xaml.

Why would you want to visually design App.xaml? What is your scenario?

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Answer 4

To edit App.xaml, for me to change StartupUri name, after stopping the debugger, i had to right click to App.xaml into the Solution Eplorer and Open with...  Source code (text) editor

Answer 5

The Simple Application Walkthrough specifically instructs one to edit App.xaml (because it previously had you inject a defect by changing the name of the file StartupUri property points to). So that is the scenario, or one of them. I assume it is 'valid' to rename MainWindow.xaml to whatever you want it to be.

So there should be some way in the IDE to fix this (short of changing the file name back to match StartupUri). What is it? 

Like another person here, I just edited it with a text editor and reloaded it into VS. But...

Answer 6

i found some help from this question. also from the answers given to you.