{"id":503,"date":"2013-04-06T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.binarybits.net\/?p=503"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:50:10","slug":"intellisense-for-axml-files-doesnt-work-in-visual-studio-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.binarybits.net\/intellisense-for-axml-files-doesnt-work-in-visual-studio-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellisense for AXML files doesn’t work in Visual Studio 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the people who work with Xamarin’s Mono for Android in Visual Studio 2012 face a bug where Intellisense doesn’t work for AXML in source view.<\/p>\n

One of the fix which worked for me is mentioned below.<\/p>\n

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  1. Launch Visual Studio 2012<\/li>\n
  2. Open a solution with .AXML file in it<\/li>\n
  3. Now XML main menu should be visible on top<\/li>\n
  4. Open “Schemas…” menu<\/li>\n
  5. Sort by “File Name” column\u00a0and see if “android-layout-xml” and “schemas.android.com.apk.res.android” are there. If found, skip to step 13<\/li>\n
  6. If not found, go to “Program Files” if 32-bit system or “Program Files (x86)” if 64-bit system.<\/li>\n
  7. Then go to “\\MSBuild\\Novell” or “\\MSBuild\\Xamarin\\Android”<\/li>\n
  8. You should be able to see\u00a02 files “android-layout-xml.xsd” and “schemas.android.com.apk.res.android.xsd”<\/li>\n
  9. Copy these 2 files to “\\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\\Xml\\Schemas”<\/li>\n
  10. Again open the “Schemas…” menu as mentioned in steps 3&4<\/li>\n
  11. Now click “Add…” button and add these 2 files which should be located as mentioned in step 7 & 8<\/li>\n
  12. Now restart visual studio and the XML editor for design layout should work fine with Intellisense<\/li>\n
  13. From step 5….<\/li>\n
  14. If above steps don’t work, then\u00a0close the Visual Studio 2012.<\/li>\n
  15. Now open “Developer command prompt for VS2012” under Windows programs menu.<\/li>\n
  16. Type “Devenv \/ResetSettings” without quotes.<\/li>\n
  17. Launch Visual Studio 2012 and see if Intellisense works.<\/li>\n
  18. If still not working, better go to Xamarin\u00a0 forums and post there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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