title: How to access controls in xamarin (C#, Visual Studio 2015) created by Designer (XAML)
body: <p>In Visual Studio 2015 i created an Android app (Xamarin) and placed a ListView into my activity. The XAML created by the designer is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;ListView xmlns:p1="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        p1:minWidth="25px"
        p1:minHeight="25px"
        p1:layout_width="match_parent"
        p1:layout_height="match_parent"
        p1:id="@+id/ListView1" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now i wanted to access the ListView-Object in my C#-Code like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ListView1.SomeProperty = "bla";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that's not possible because ListView1 isn't known by Visual Studio's IntelliSense and it's not possible to compile. How can i access the control here?</p>
  
  <p>Also there's no way to reach the properties in the Xamarin designer in Visual Studio. It's only possible to see the events but the properties-window is greyed out.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in Advance for your help!</p>