WPF Designer “Could not create an instance of type”

Question

In my UI XAML I\'m essentially inheriting from a class \"BaseView\" that contains functionality common to several forms, however this is preventing the designer from display

Answer 1

The problem was that the base class was defined as abstract. This caused the designer to fail. This problem is described in more detail in the comments section of Laurent Bugnion's blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2007/03/02/107747.aspx