Create properties that only apply on design time

Question

I am using visual studio dark theme. As a result when designing my views I cannot see the font if its black. A fix will be to set the background of the view to white. But ou

Answer 1

Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but what I do is just plop a trigger in the app.xaml to invoke using the IsInDesignMode property like;

Namespace (Thanks Tono Nam);

xmlns:componentModel="clr-namespace:System.ComponentModel;assembly=PresentationFramework"

XAML;

Simple, but works, and sometimes I target other dependency properties like font and stuff too depending on the need. Hope this helps.

PS - You can target other TargetType's with their own properties the same way, like for example, ChildWindows, Popups, Windows, whatever...