How to open Storyboard designer in Visual Studio Mac

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How to open Storyboard designer in Visual Studio Mac

Fahim Payab 26

Hello, I am new to visual studio Mac and Xamarin iOS. I recently downloaded visual studio with all its components. I am able to open and create a new iOS project solution. But when i click on "Open Storyboard Designer" it opens Xcode view controller. I am following a tutorial in youtube and the guy opens Storyboard desinger in Visual Studio (Open storyboard designer). Am i missing something? please assist.

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Anonymous

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I am following a tutorial in youtube and the guy opens Storyboard designer in Visual Studio (Open storyboard designer)

Starting with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.8, the recommended way to edit .storyboard and .nib files is by editing them in Xcode Interface Builder on a Mac, we cannot open Storyboard designer in Visual Studio, we have to use Visual Studio for Mac and the Xcode Interface Builder to continue building your Xamarin.iOS user interfaces.

Please see this official article about it, and it provide step by step way to edit .storyboard by editing them in Xcode Interface Builder on a Mac

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/user-interface/storyboards/

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Leon Lu

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Seth Isaacks 51 Reputation points

2021-10-19T23:30:25.123+00:00

@Anonymous I am running the latest IOS Mac and XCode 13 and I get an error message that states visual studio cannot communicate with XCode when I try to open the story board.
Seth Isaacks 51 Reputation points

2021-10-20T14:10:01.573+00:00

@Anonymous so what you state is exactly what I am trying to do. I am using Visual Studio for MAC and I am trying to use the XCode Interface Builder

Steps to Reproduce
Follow the following tutorial to create a storyboard : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/app-fundamentals/images-icons/launch-screens?tabs=macos (make sure XCode is closed)
Once created double click on the LaunchScreen.Storyboard
Expected Behavior
The storyboard should open

Actual Behavior
A warning message: Visual Studio could not communicate with XCode. If XCode is still running, please ensure that all changes have been saved and Xcode has been exited before continuing, otherwise any new changes may be lost. When you click OK you get the rainbow spinner of death and you have to force quite XCode.

Environment
Visual Studio 8.10.11
XCode 13
macOS Big Sur Version 11.6

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