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-## A New Post
+## Showing Gridlines In Xamarin Forms Previewer
 
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+I do a lot of work with Xamarin Forms. I'm in the XAML Previewer for much of my working day as I create new features and fix bugs in our company's app.
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+One of the things about the Previewer that has always frustrated me is that it doesn't show the outlines of any of the objects that I place in a form.
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+The standard tactic to get around this limitation is to apply a `BackgroundColor` to each object being added. However, it's easy to see that this is ugly, prone to errors (I have accidentally shipped something with a `Fuchsia` (hot pink) background at least once) and extremely tedious.
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+I began to be convinced that "there must be a better way".