Microsoft Unified Service Desk (USD) 3.0 Custom Layout

Question

When trying to create a CustomLayout for Microsoft Unified Service Desk (USD) 3.0 I get the error:

Error 1

Cannot create an instance of "PanelLayoutBase". c:\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\LayoutSolution\MyPanelLayout\CustomLayout.xaml 1 10 MyPanelLayout

I am using Visual Studio 2013 Latest version of the SDK

Answer 1

Two possible fixes:

1. Dig into the exception details. Determine the missing reference and add it manually.
2. Update NuGet packages. XAML designer exceptions from v8.0 - 8.2 appear to have been resolved with SDK v9.0.

Answer 2

The solution was to go back to the USD 2.0 templates and DLL files. Once I did this everything worked in USD 3.0.