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Designer window iOS LaunchStoryboard in Windows visual studio

Hi,

I'm paired to my Mac with Xcode installed on it. I can debug to a simulation of iPhone on my Windows Visual studio, but when open the LaunchScreen.storyboard.xid Visual studio opens this in xml format and not with the storyboard designer window.
In Xcode on the Mac can open a storyboard designer.
Someone a solution?

Regards Gerrit

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ColeXia-MSFT answered

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Check the docs :

The iOS Designer was deprecated in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8, and removed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.9. The recommended way to build iOS user interfaces is directly on a Mac running Xcode. For more information, see Designing user interfaces with Xcode.


So , the only solution is to build iOS user interfaces on the mac .


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Hi ColaXia,

Thanks for this information, sorry, I'm not happy with this.

No doubt there is a reason that Microsoft decide to deprecated this feature in Visual Studio on Windows. I am very sorry that it has been decided, because for me it cost me a lot of time, and especially I am not a (daily) Mac user, use the Mac only for this purpose and as server.

But still I am confused, because:
When using Xamarin Forms shared project developing for Android and iOS, i did this always on a Windows machine with debugging (with a mac connected) to a iPhone simulator or to a real device. The only thing I cannot anymore, is creating a splashscreen for iOS?
So if I need for my project a splashscreen, I need copy my project in a Mac computer for only creating this item. Mmmm!! There is my confusing.
Because this is new for me, Is it possible to make only the a splashscreen on the Mac with XCode and for example copy it back to in Visual Studio on the Windows computer? Do I for the future keep in mind that it is only possible to make and creating shared projects for Android and iOS in Visual Studio on a Mac?


Regards Gerrit

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You can run the same shared project on mac and windows , it is compatible on both platform .
Create the splash screen on mac and copy the project to windows to continue to develop.

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