Hide WPF elements in Visual Studio designer

Question

I have a WPF form which basically looks like this:

  
    
      [content shown during normal operation]
             


        

Answer 1

Starting from VS2012 you can just use the Blend namespace IsHidden attribute:

• add if not already present xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
• put d:IsHidden="true" on element you want to hide at design time only