Question

As I found no Information about my concern on google, I will try it here.

On Visual Studio 2010 it was possible to create Custom Start Pages.
I did one by my own a year ago and I’m used to it now.

Well, as Visual Studio 2012 released, I wasn’t able to use my (VSIX) Custom Start Page anymore.

On MSDN I found this: How to: Upgrade Visual Studio SDK/VSIX Projects to Visual Studio 2012, but after I made everything it still didn’t work.

The Problem actually is, that there is NO “Start Page Project Template” (To find in Extension Manager) as in Visual Studio 2010.

So I found this: How to: Manually Create a Start Page, but its completly false and copy/paste as it leads to Visual Studio 2010 though it tells Visual Studio 2012 at the top.

After the Tutorial I got this:

<Grid    xmlns:sp="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.StartPage"
         xmlns:vs="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0"
         xmlns:vsfx="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0"
         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
         xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" 
         xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" 
         mc:Ignorable="d" 
         d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="300">
<Grid>
    <Label Content="My ListView:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Foreground="White"/>
    <ListView Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Margin="10,40,10,10" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
        <ListView.View>
            <GridView>
                <GridViewColumn/>
            </GridView>
        </ListView.View>
    </ListView>
</Grid>

That doesn’t work in VS2012, but in VS2010 it works like a charm.

Well at least I had no choice, than to try things out by my own.
I used the tutorial in the last link I provided (How to: Manually Create a Start Page).

Beginning: Creating a Blank Start Page and on Step 5: In the editor, change the top-level UserControl element to a Grid element without removing any of the namespace declarations.

I didn’t do that – I let it be a UserControl and I was able then to choose the XAML from the Tools>Options>StartPage>Customize Start Page , well the only problem is now, that I cant have CodeBehind, cause I had to remove the x:Class (Take a Look at Step 6)..

And inlinecode in the XAML is not an option, so please if someone can help me; how exactly I upgrade my VSIX Custom Start Page to VS2012 or how I create a working Blank StartPage with Codebehind ability or if I need to wait until someone releases the Start Page Project Template for VS2012, I would really appreciate it..

Answer 1

At least I wasn’t able to solve my problem.. I created then everything from scratch and with InlineCode (for sure with XAML and WPF)