Xamarin Live Reload - Preview

**The preview of Xamarin Live Reload has ended, and we want to thank everyone for your feedback and comments. This extension will remain available for Visual Studio 2017, but will not be receiving future updates.

XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms enables you to make changes to your XAML UI and see the updates applied live, without requiring another compile and deploy. For more information, check out the XAML Hot Reload documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/hot-reload

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Xamarin Live Reload enables you to make changes to your XAML and see them reflected live, without requiring another compile and deploy. Any changes made to your XAML will be redeployed on save and reflected on your deployment target.

Because your app is compiled when using Live Reload, it works with all libraries and third-party controls. Live Reload works on all platforms Xamarin.Forms supports, including iOS, Android, UWP, and WPF, and works on all valid deployment targets, including simulators, emulators, and physical devices.

Getting Started

To get started, follow the instructions in documentation.

Changelog

0.3.27

Added

• Support for shared projects.
• XAMLC is now fully supported.
• Changes to the Application resource dictionary will now be reflected in your app on save.
• CSS styles are now reloaded on save.
• Add options to allow explicit connection and disconnection for Live Reload from the information bar.

Fixed

• Keep DesignMode.IsDesignModeEnabled=false since Live Reload runs the real app.
• User Access Control (UAC) will now only prompt you once to allow mqtt.exe (the localhost Live Reload server) to listen on the specified port.
• UI delays caused by background operations switching unnecessarily to UI thread.
• When second IDE connects via localhost, disconnect first IDE but let user reconnect explicitly via information bar.

0.2.213

• Support live reloading of Xamarin.Forms XAML on save.