Blend in Visual Studio 2015 - No Design View

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Jonada Ferracaku picture Jonada Ferracaku · Aug 10, 2015 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I am tying to build an app in Visual Studio 2015 in C# and I want to create a User Interface using Blend. But it shows me only the code in MainPage.xaml, not the graphic view. What should I do ? Here's how it looks

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Answer

Craig Taylor picture Craig Taylor · Feb 23, 2016

You have to change the target version of the app to build 10240. The default is set to build 10586, and the designer will not load.

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