Need to build project to first start plugin.

[CreateLab]

Till I don't run my proj plugin show nothing.

[wdcossey]

This is to be expected, WPF works the same way, you can't preview anything until the project is built.

You don't need to run your project(s), you can simply build/rebuild them to enable/activate the preview.

[ForNeVeR]

While this is expected, we have to handle it somehow (e.g. offer the user a button to build the project, the same as Windows Forms previewer does).

[wdcossey]

The buttons/actions are already in the IDE, we can simply clone the action as is in the split previewer and/or display a message (in the preview) to inform the end-user to re/build the project.

[CreateLab]

As for me it's unexpectable. If I open a project, I wanna just see preview. ( and I have no information that I need to build project)

[andrfgs]

Still on the same subject as this issue/feature, is there any way to prevent the Avalonia log view from creating new tabs every time you build the project? It's not that really much of an issue but still.

[ForNeVeR]

@andrfgs, for better manageability, please create a new issue about that. It is unrelated to the current one.