How do I add XamlDebuggingInformation MSBuild property to CsProj?-CodePudding

This page from Microsoft about trubleshooting XAML Hot reload says this:

By default, source info is included in a Debug configuration. It is controlled by MSBuild properties in your project files (such as *.csproj). For WPF, the property is XamlDebuggingInformation, which must be set to True. For UWP, the property is DisableXbfLineInfo, which must be set to False. For example:

WPF: <XamlDebuggingInformation>True</XamlDebuggingInformation>

UWP: <DisableXbfLineInfo>False</DisableXbfLineInfo>

Since my project configuration name isn't "Debug" the hot reload property is not automatically in my MSBuild configuration and as you can see Microsoft recommend that I add XamlDebuggingInformation to my .csProj in order to get XAML hotreloading to work but I have no idea how todo that.

I tried just adding a new line into the <PropertyGroup> tag that had the configuration I wanted to apply but then Visual Studio had a very hard time loading after that. How do I add this MSBuild property?

Example of csproj file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="16.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProjectGuid>{1EA7A7EC-D092-4DE3-B8DD-49F74B71ACF2}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <RootNamespace>PatchDeDup</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>PatchDeDup</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.7</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
    <ProjectTypeGuids>{60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>true</AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>
    <Deterministic>true</Deterministic>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'OtherDebug|AnyCPU'">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <OutputPath>bin\OtherDebug\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>MinimumRecommendedRules.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
    <Prefer32Bit>true</Prefer32Bit>
  </PropertyGroup>
  ... file includes, dependency references, etc. (pretty generic wpf project stuff)

I assumed that I'd have to add <XamlDebuggingInformation>True</XamlDebuggingInformation> inside the PropertyGroup for the OtherDebug|AnyCPU but VS 2019 doesn't expect that apparently...

CodePudding user response：

My solution ended up being really simple. Open the .csProj file find the PropertyGroup which has the configuration name you expect and add <XamlDebuggingInformation>True</XamlDebuggingInformation> into the body of the XML tag.

For me I had todo this while Visual Studio was closed cause the Solution Reload failed and Visual Studio got stuck in an infinite loop. But adding it before opening was fine :)