Snack Pack 7: Plugins for Xamarin and Windows

Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a look at the brand new (and in preview) Xamarin.Forms Previewer for Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. The Xamarin.Forms Previewer enables you to see your Xamarin.Forms XAML layouts rendered as you type! We will even look at how to visualize design time data using the "ViewModelLocator" approach.
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Hello and thanks for the video. But as far as I know the Xamarin Studio 6.1.1 Version is the last one that includes the XAML Previewer. How could we test we the new xamarin studio version?
@nikogram:It should be there: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-previewer/
You can always check for updates can switch to the beta channel.
Hi - In the Video it doesn't appear that the Previewer supports the UWP platform. Is that changing soon?
Does Previewer work in Visual Studio?
Thanks a lot! It works in VS2015 and helped with Forms xaml design.
I think it's too early to promote Form previewer. It just doesn't work in most real projects.
Especially in VS2017 :).
Nice to have, but..
Hopefully developers will polish it in future release.