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@ghost1372 If you multi-target your application and the first framework listed is net472, Visual Studio should allow you to use the designer. Be aware that the designer is not yet officially supported. This trick is just something that should allow you to work in the designer if you need. It may break at any time or not work properly for all scenarios and XAML content.

By multi-target, I mean add the following PropertyGroup to each csproj (or some common props file in the build):

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFrameworks>net472;netcoreapp3.0</TargetFrameworks>
</PropertyGroup>

You will have to have some conditionals based on TargetFramework that pull in the correct references for the net472 side. For netcoreapp3.0, the project SDK set to "Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop" and the UseWPF property set to true will bring in the required binaries.

Of course, you can also have a single source tree that belongs to both a desktop and a core project. Then, simply open the XAML on the desktop project side when you need to use the designer. However, this can get unwieldy if you have multiple projects contributing to a single application.

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tnx worked fine @livarcocc @rladuca

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