[Windows Store] When the property window in Visual Studio not responding
When working with Visual Studio 2012, VS2013 and later, especially when designing the UI in XAML, you may well run into an inconvenience: after a while of working fine, you can’t click, edit, or increase/decrease anything in the property window. So you have to edit directly in the code, which is fairly inconvenient and time-consuming.
How do you fix this?
OLD WAY: Restart your Visual Studio
Right — the famous line from Apple Supporters: “Have you tried turn it off and on again?” Closing and reopening Visual Studio will definitely solve the problem for you. But keep reading this blog post
NEW WAY: Run a piece of code
The code below lets you kill the designer task inside Visual Studio. After running it, go into Visual Studio and click the “Click here to reload Designer” link, and you’re done.
Open notepad and copy paste the following code:
taskkill /f /im XDesProc.exeSave it with the .bat extension
That’s it. Every time you hit the bug where you can’t edit in Visual Studio’s property pane, just double click this file.
More details: What does Microsoft say?
Microsoft’s engineers already know this bug exists. And they “tagged” it as Won’t-fix in this version. Which means that unless there is a newer Visual Studio version, this bug will not be fixed in 2012 or 2013.