There's a glimmer of hope over here [1]. Microsoft updated the XAML Designer. The new designer has support for UWP but note the comments. In particular "WPF [su

There's a glimmer of hope over here [1]. Microsoft updated the XAML Designer. The new designer has support for UWP but note the comments. In particular "WPF [support] will be shipped sometime after the UWP Designer has been released and stabilized." [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/09/11/a-significant-update-to-the-xaml-designer/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/09/11/a-s...