WPF UserControl Design Time Size

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For Blend, a little known trick is to add these attributes to your usercontrol or window:

 xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" 
      xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" 
mc:Ignorable="d"
       d:DesignHeight="500" d:DesignWidth="600"

This will set the design height and width to 500 and 600 respectively. However this will only work for the blend designer. Not the Visual Studio Designer.

As far as the Visual Studio Designer your technique is all that works. Which is why I don’t use the Visual Studio Designer. 😉

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