Why toolbox in Visual Studio 2017 xamarin project is empty

Question

I want to write a program in xamarin c#.net by Visual Studio 2017 So I new a xamarin project and when I want to drag and drop controls into xaml form but I noticed that there is no control in toolbox panel. How to solve this?

Answer 1

Yes, it is the case just as you said: before the preview gets focused, the Toolbox is empty as follows

But you can try the following steps to make it display:

1 To make the preview focused, you can simply click it.

2 When the preview get focused, the Toolbox will display.

Hope it can help you.