title: Is it possible to use a Xaml designer or intellisense with Xamarin.Forms?
body: <p>Xamarin 3.0 introduced <a href="http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/introduction-to-xamarin-forms/" rel="noreferrer">Xamarin.Forms</a>, a powerful UI abstraction that allows developers to easily create user interfaces that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. </p>
  
  <p>It seems very powerful but I'm facing a few difficulties to create UI as Xamarin.Forms comes with more than 40 controls. Without intellisense or a minimalist designer, it's fairly counter-productive to search for all properties in the official doc or by browsing c# code.</p>
  
  <p>The default Xaml teamplate is like this, and it's clearly not trivial to add new controls without any help.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt;
  &lt;ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
                         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
                         x:Class="App1.Class1"&gt;
      &lt;Label Text="{Binding MainText}"  VerticalOptions="Center" HorizontalOptions="Center" /&gt;
  &lt;/ContentPage&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So is there any chance to have intellisense inside Xaml or to use the Xaml designer ?</p>