Unable to find the Designer View in a UWP application

Hello everyone,

it seems like the Designer View to actually edit the layout of my UWP application graphically is missing. Yes, I checked if it is enabled in File -> Settings -> Tools -> Windows Forms Designer and it was already enabled by default.

After reading a related post, I checked if the rider.enable.designer.winForms setting is enabled in Help -> Find Actions -> Registry and it is indeed. Though I'm pretty sure these two settings are directly related, I checked it nonetheless.

The minimum Windows requirement for my UWP project is the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (10.0.16299.0), but it didn't work with a Windows 10 minimum requirement either, which is the oldest version you can select. The project and solution are in the same directory. I am using Rider 2021.1.2.

 

Here is a screenshot of the list of windows that are available:

 

I would be happy if someone could help me with this and eventually give me some tips for UWP development with Rider and UWP development in general. Thank you very much!

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Hi,

UWP designer is not supported yet. Please vote for the issue on Rider's tracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-16327.

 

K.R.

Sofia

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Thank you very much for your answer, Sofia. I wasn't aware of that. I assumed it was integrated due to the already existing UWP support. I'm looking forward to this feature in the future.
I appreciate your answer.

Kind regards

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