Kill the WPF Designer

Johan Larsson

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Helper for killing the WPF designer. Kills all instances of XDesProc.exe.

The WPF designer has countless issues. Here are a few:

  • DynamicResources in theme libraries work poorly.
  • XDesProc.exe can hang and render Visual Studio sluggish/useless.
  • False positive errors in xaml intellisense.
  • XDesProc.exe can block build in certain situations.

I have found that it behaves best until first rebuild. Sadly there is a need for a convenient way to kill it.

This extension adds two buttons:

  1. Kill the designer. Kills all instances of XDesProc.exe.
  2. Kill the designer and rebuild solution. Kills all instances of XDesProc.exe before calling Rebuild solution.