Your example code all shows these being set in code behind; which means that the UI designer always shows your default layout instead of the layout I'm using.

ex from StyleSamples.cs in your example projects:


Code (c++):

virtualKeyboard.TemplateLayout = KeyboardLayout.Create(                     this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Styles.CustomLayout.xml")); //set custom style of VirtualKeyboardStyle from file resources.Source = new Uri("/Styles;component/VirtualKeyboardWithImages.xaml", UriKind.Relative); this.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(resources);

You can define keyboard layout from Xaml like this -
[code]
<vk:VirtualKeyboard>
     <vk:VirtualKeyboard.TemplateLayout>
           <vk:KeyboardLayout>
                 <vk:KeyboardLayout.Keys>
                       <vk:RegularKey Content="A" Left="10" Top="10" Width="60" Height="60" />
                       <vk:RegularKey Content="B" Left="80" Top="10" Width="60" Height="60" />
                       ...
                 </vk:KeyboardLayout.Keys>
           </vk:KeyboardLayout>
     </vk:VirtualKeyboard.TemplateLayout>
</vk:VirtualKeyboard>[/code]

Seeing an external layout file created using the Keyboard Creator tool in VS design time should be possible too - try creating an IValueConverter that returns KeyboardLayout.Create(filename) from Convert method and use it in TemplateLayout binding expression.

Regards,
Slavcho