How to manually reload the Visual Studio designer for WPF

Question

Is there any way to force the WPF designer to reload or refresh, without rebuilding the entire project or solution?

If there\'s an error, I get an option in the desi

Answer 1

You can add this to the Tools menu in Visual Studio.

Once configured, use Tools..XAML Designer Restart:

Alt+T then L

I tried configuring it for Alt+T then X but this clashed with Tools..Choose ToolboX Items.

Update

These days, I prefer to just hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the process manager, then X to skip to XDesProc.exe then Delete to kill the rogue process(es).