title: Why does the Xamarin.Forms designer not show windows layouts?
body: <p>I tried searching for this everywhere, but I cannot find any solution.
  I also tried looking at solution properties, project properties, visual studio preferences, Visual Studio extensions, change XAML <code>xmlns</code> definitions but I have no clue why this is not possible, and I think it should be standard simple functionality.</p>
  
  <p>When you create a new Xamarin.Forms project that includes 
  , you would suspect that there is not only a way to see your XAML design on Android and iOS but also for any Windows platform you are targeting, such as W10 Desktop but also other Windows platforms that UWP supports and that supposedly Xamarin. Forms do support according to the website from Microsoft. You can easily build your project for these platforms, no problem. But I want to see what I am doing before I compile my work.</p>
  
  <p>When opening your XAML design, instead of a simple Android / iOS <strong>and Windows</strong> tab in the design panel, Windows is nowhere to be found.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkDNR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkDNR.png" alt="Where are windows?"></a></p>
  
  <p>How am I supposed to see how my Windows screen is going to look without an option to see this? In WPF and plain UWP, this works fine, but somehow for Xamarin it only shows Android/IOS, but apparently, Xamarin has full support for Windows (desktop).</p>
  
  <p>I am looking for multi-platform support to create a windows desktop application that is easily portable to iOS and Android. I thought Xamarin could do that, but if I am not able to see what I am doing on Windows in terms of layout, how am I supposed to develop a solid UI for the platform?</p>
  
  <p>I am probably missing some kind of checkbox somewhere (I am hoping), but I cannot find any information about this. Yes, I tried to google. And Stack overflow. And Xamarin documentation from Microsoft. And watch YouTube videos about Xamarin for 20 minutes that supposed to explain the Xamarin multi-platform support. And after 20 minutes I find they only specifically explain iOS/Android but nothing about Windows. So yeah, getting pretty tired of searching and hope someone can be kind enough to help me out.</p>