Reputation: 3570
I have upgraded a project from VS 2012 to VS 2015 and I am getting bizarre errors. On some windows it complains about Color and Brush definitions even though I am doing absolutely nothing with any colors or brushes. The project will compile but the editor gives errors. As an example, on the XAML code:
<ComboBox x:Name="cbCountry" Grid.Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="28" FontSize="12" SelectionChanged="cbCountry_SelectionChanged"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" IsEditable="True" StaysOpenOnEdit="True" IsManipulationEnabled="True" KeyUp="cbCountry_KeyUp" />
complains about the color. Huh? What color? This is a pretty vanilla page with nothing fancy going on, anybody have any ideas how to eliminate these errors?
Update I had some windows resources defined as:
<Window.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="CityTemplate">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding City}" />
</Border>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
which does have a BorderBrush defined, but not for the combo. I tried taking a piece out at a time starting with the BorderBrush. It wasn't until I completely removed the <Windows.Resources>
section that the error went away. Does anyone see anything wrong in the Windows Resources to cause this?
Update 2
The problem seems to be independent of any code behind. The entire XAML is below:
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:ig="http://schemas.infragistics.com/xaml"
x:Class="PTHWPF.View.Lookup"
Title="Lookup Place of Birth" Height="400" Width="600" Loaded="Window_Loaded"
Icon="/PTHWPF;component/Resources/Images/LookupMap.png">
<!--TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center" -->
<Window.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="CityTemplate">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding City}" />
</Border>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid IsManipulationEnabled="True" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="110" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="280*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="180*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="60" />
<RowDefinition Height="50" />
<RowDefinition Height="50" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Content="Country or State" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Right" x:Name="lbCountry" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
<ComboBox x:Name="cbCountry" Grid.Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="28" FontSize="12" SelectionChanged="cbCountry_SelectionChanged"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" IsEditable="True" StaysOpenOnEdit="True" IsManipulationEnabled="True" KeyUp="cbCountry_KeyUp" >
</ComboBox>
<Label Content="City" Grid.Row="1" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Right" x:Name="lbCity" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
<ig:XamMultiColumnComboEditor SelectionChanged="cbCity_SelectionChanged"
Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
x:Name="cbCity" Height="28"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
DataContext="{Binding}"
DisplayMemberPath="City"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Left"
IsTabStop="True" MinWidth="250"
FilterMode="FilterOnPrimaryColumnOnly"/>
<DockPanel Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Center" >
<Button Background="#9F7F90FC" Height="30" x:Name="btnOk" Width="80" Style="{DynamicResource RoundedButton}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsDefault="True" Click="btnOk_Click" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0,0,20,0">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Height="20" Source="/PTHWPF;component/Resources/ok.png" Width="20" />
<AccessText Margin="5,3,0,0" x:Name="btnOkText" Text="_Ok"/>
</StackPanel>
</Button>
<Button Background="#9F7F90FC" BorderBrush="#95FFFFFF" Height="30" x:Name="btnCancel" Style="{DynamicResource RoundedButton}" Width="80" IsCancel="True" Click="btnCancel_Click" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="20,0,0,0">
<StackPanel Background="{x:Null}" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Height="20" Source="/PTHWPF;component/Resources/Images/cancel.png" Width="20" />
<AccessText Margin="5,3,0,0" x:Name="btnCancelText" Text="_Cancel"/>
</StackPanel>
</Button>
</DockPanel>
</Grid>
</Window>
Upvotes: 3
Views: 379
Reputation: 3570
Apparently Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition had some issues, this also included "Handler=..." errors such as found here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1611888/xaml-editor-error-invalid-value-for-property-handler-and-ischecked-bug-remains-in-the-enterprise-version-of-vs-2015
I encountered it as well on other XAML files, but it didn't cause the designer to fail.
Solution:
Upgrade to Service Pack 1 found here:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update1-vs.aspx
It is a web update and it took over an hour to do. I will also require a reboot of windows to finish, so keep that in mind. Hopefully anyone finding this post won't spend days like I did to fix the problem.
Upvotes: 1