Question

I recently installed the release candidate for Visual Studio 2012 and the release preview for Windows 8. I lost xaml intellisense and VS treats xaml as an XML document. Does anybody else have any ideas where to start to fix this problem?

Answer 1

I simply re-installed Visual Studio 2012 RC. I’m not willing to attempt to reproduce the problem, but I believe this is what I did: Upgrade windows 7 professional with Visual Studio 2010 installed to Windows 8 professional, Installed Visual Studio 2012 RC, Installed Windows 8 SDK.

My symptoms include:

1. Under tools, options, text editor, no xaml option.
2. When I tried to view a xaml page via designer, the property window displayed everything as an XML document
3. I could not view the designer in Visual Studio (I could in Blend), it would not let me and would show the xaml mark-up instead.
4. No intellisense.

Re-installing didn’t take too much time, maybe 20-30 minutes.