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Ahmed Rashad Mohamed
Ahmed Rashad Mohamed

Reputation: 842

Changes To xaml don't reflect on App Until rebuild - windows phone

I have a weird problem in an windows phone 8 project (Visual Studio Express for windows phone 8) that Changes to xaml( ex:change visibility of control) don't reflect on App until I rebuild the project and deploy it again to emulator or device.

The changes reflect normally in the design window of visual studio but didn't reflect on the running App.

I did many researches and they didn't help, like:

1- Change "Build and Run" to "always build" when projects are out of date.

2- I checked configuration manager as This post suggests but it was selected.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1274

Answers (3)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 11

I also noticed that numbers at the beginning of app name cause the same problem. I solved it by removing numbers from solution and app name.

Upvotes: 0

Tecman
Tecman

Reputation: 3009

I had the same issue for some of my WP8 Silverlight projects in VS 2013. I couldn't understand why it happened only for some projects but not all, but eventually I found this forum thread. The solution is the following: if the name of your app includes spaces, you definitely need to remove them or replace say with the underscore char. This recipe helped to recover my 'problem' projects.

Upvotes: 0

doktorg
doktorg

Reputation: 187

I have the exact same issue. I have a work around at the moment to save the hassle of rebuilding the solution because rebuilding deletes and re-installs the app and changes any saved settings you've made while debugging. The work around is to switch between configurations. So I'll execute the app in Debug, make some changes, then the next time I execute I change config to Release, and the changes are there.

The difference I can see is when it works I can see the Build Output line which says "Updating the application as the manifest file has changed..." take a few moments to complete. When this issue occurs the output line appears for a split second and so you can tell the incremental deployment hasn't actually been deployed to the device/emulator.

This is a little frustrating so hopefully someone has a real answer. I have other projects on the same machine and they don't have this issue. Just the one project so I don't think its a VS2012 problem.

I've also tried suggestions from other sites saying delete bin and obj folders but that didn't work.

Upvotes: 1

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