Cant find design view for win form
I installed visual studio 2022 on new laptop. I cant find design view anymore. Before it would usually start up the form file as form but now it wont. I have tried things like shift f7, right clicking my file(but there is no option to view as design when i right click), I have also trierd changing web forms designer setting to start in design view, If anyone could help me would be great
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What workloads did you install?
.net 8 i have
i remember I got it working the other day when figuring out but I forget what though
Likely you need to update the install of visual studio and include desktop development. There's an app called visual studio installer that will let you make sure you have that selected.
ok i just did but it was small update. like i said i had it working before but i dont remember what i did tho
like they were some couple small settings or saomething but i suppose it reset
That didn't fix it?
no i dont notice anything
im pretty sure it’s something(s) in the tools>options I was doing that helped before
i might just try reinstall later
Hey
Can u send me a picture when u are in project ?
If u don't have
solution explorer on you'r project u can go ->>
Window -> Reset Window Layouts Make sure you'r code (
.cs) has : Form with
And you'r form will be with this icon:
doesnt have the system.windows.form
i also reset windows layout as well reset to default settings in tools
i had closed my tabs went to solution and rebuilt solution and worked
oh
you opened a folder not a solution
visual studio 2022 can open a folder, but pretty much it requires you to open the solution by using the solution file.