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Blend 3 - Keyboard Shortcut to switch between design and xaml views?

As I'm not more of a developer than a designer I like to hand code my xaml rather than using draggy-droppy stuff.

Since silverlight 3 - the design preview in VS2008 has disappeared. It wasn't that great but at least I got a visual representation of my markup without having to run the application.

So I installed Blend 3 and I'd still like to hand code my xaml.

Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut to switch between design view and xaml view - I've tried editing the xaml in VS then tabbing over to blend but theres a small delay that can be annoying when I just want a quick preview.

Thanks.

Solution

  • Are you talking about while in Blend? In which case it's F11 to toggle view.

    If your talking about toggling between VS and Blend then I don't think it can be done, but you could try adding a Keyboard Shortcut in Tools->Options->Keyboard (not tried it and don't know if it would be successful).