I am trying to create a desktop application for windows using Xamarin Visual Studio but i cannot find WPF application. I saw in other S.O questions that Visual Studio does support.
Do i have to install any plugin?
Open the Visual Studio 2017 installer and select modify. Make sure the windows workflow is selected and press continue. This will add support for WPF and windows forms apps
WPF is not supported in Visual Studio for Mac
WPF is not cross-platform, it is Windows desktop only. And there is no "plugin" that changes this.
So if you want to create a WPF desktop application you should use Visual Studio on Windows and nothing else.
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I wanted to create WPF project using visual studio 2022. I am not able to find the project template. What package should I use?
Installing .NET desktop development worked for me.
Is it possible to develop an XBAP application with Visual Studio 2019 ? The project template is not shown when creating a new project.
if you mean wpf for the web i think it's limited to visual studio 2010
Yes you can , The project template named WPF Browser App
Visual studio 2019 version:
In other computer there was Blend for visual studio 2012 and I could create wpf and silverlight projects. On my computer (also have Blend for visual studio 2012) when I want to create new project there are two options: HTML (Windows Store) and XAML (Windows Store). But there is no WPF which I need to create wpf contoll library. Why is that? Do I have some wrong version of Blend or some plug-in not istalled?
Hello I've been switching between blend and visual studio for designing and coding and I heard that you can right click an XML file and click open in blend I've looked on the context menu and it isn't there. Any help is appreciated.
The Blend in Visual Studio 2012 is for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps only,
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/eng/
Blend will continue to ship as a standalone tool with Visual Studio
2012, as part of a consolidated designer/developer offering. Blend for
Visual Studio 2012 provides a rich design-centric environment for
building Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. In addition,
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and later adds support for Silverlight and
WPF editing, as well as SketchFlow.
You will have to install Update 2 as suggested by Microsoft.
I have installed VS2012 on a windows 8 machine and surprisingly doesn't show any WPF or Silverlight option when I create a project.
Am I missing something here?! In fact, it is not the way it used to be in VS2010. I only can see it as template under Visual C# which again it is under Online.
Why is that?
You need to install "Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop"....it's a different edition which has restored the WPF capability.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop-is-here.aspx
To help decide if it's got all the capabilities you need:
Limitations of Visual Studio 2012 Express Desktop