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Use the Hand tool in XAML designer

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Use the Hand tool in XAML designer

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- [Instructor] In this tip, I'll look at how to move around the user interface in Visual Studio when you're editing a visual design. There are many different kinds of designer screens in Visual Studio. There's ones for web pages, there's one for the class view, there's one for universal Windows application screens, and what I'm looking at here is for WPF. I'm looking at a window viewer. So I've opened this xaml file, and when I open the xaml file, on the top half of the screen, there's a designer, and on the bottom half of the screen is the text editor where I have the xml or xaml code. At some point while you're working in this UI, you're going to want to zoom in. So you'll zoom in to 400%, and now you want to go up and see the menu that's at the top of this window. In the traditional way of moving around in most developer tools, you would grab the scroll bar and scroll to the left, and then scroll to the top until you find the menu. If you're an expert scroller, you also know that…

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