Thursday, November 3, 2011

Visual Studio Express 11 Preview – Designer not showing up

 

Okay, so now I have a Windows 8 Preview VM setup ready. The first thing that I wanted to get started with was the Metro Style Apps. Excellent !!!

Fired up my Visual Studio environment, created a new Metro C# Project and hit the very first wall. The designer view of my HelloMetro.xaml did not show up and instead gave me this error:

“Exception from HRESULT: 0x80270232" ………………

Wow, have worked quite a bit on Silverlight projects based on XAML but never seen anything such. Tried looking into the namespace of each of the .xaml and .cs files, even tried deleting and re-creating the project again.

But looks like there is a pre-requisites for the Metro-Style Apps here.

We need to set the VM resolution to anything higher than 1024X768.

There we go, it worked !!!

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