Xamarin Hot Reload does... Absolutely Nothing when Changes are Made - xaml

I'm creating a very UI centric application - in this application it is important (or event vital one can say) that I can actively preview my changes. Thankfully, Xamarin.Forms has Hot Reload - the perfect tool to get started to preview your changes!
I enabled hot reload in the 'Hot Reload' section in the options tab - I also enabled the 'Changes Made' (which is in preview) option to 'ON'.
I started my application - and I changed the text of a button... And...
Nothing.
I closed and reopened my app - and tried again... And... guess what?
Nothing.
Xamarin.Forms - come on!
This is a very annoying issue I've had on this specific application - it's taken away most of my day and I've just been fighting and fighting - and I have been unable to solve anything.
What I tried to do:
I tried to upgrade my Xamarin.Forms version to the latest - and that still did not solve anything.
I tried to enable and disable Hot Reload from the options menu - and that still did not solve anything.
I tried to close and reopen the solution - clean - and build - and you guess it: still I could not preview my changes.
I checked if I enabled it and it was enabled.
I checked my linker settings and they were as expected.
Images:
XAML code:
I changed the background color to blue:
<Grid HeightRequest="100"
Margin="5"
BackgroundColor="White"
RowSpacing="2">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="125" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0"
Grid.Column="1"
TextColor="Blue"
VerticalOptions="Center"
Text="{Binding EventTitle}"
Margin="7"
Padding="10,0" />
<Image Grid.Row="0"
HeightRequest="125"
VerticalOptions="Start"
Margin="2,2,1,2"
Aspect="AspectFill"
Source="{Binding Image}" />
</Grid>
My phone:
Even after saving - and waiting for at least half an hour - still the background is white.
I've tried everything possible to get it to work and I've been hitting the wall each time.
I am looking for help,
Thanks,
Tom

I've had all sorts of different issues with Hot Reload not working over the past few months.
I found the only consistent way that I could get it to work was by opening the project the long way around.
So:
Open Visual Studio
Choose Continue without code on the startup screen
Go to File -> Open -> Project/Solution and choose the solution from there.
Whenever I load the project this way, Hot Reload will work. If I load it any other way, it seems to be really temperamental.

Open project
Go to Tools => Debugging => Hot Reload
On "Common" section tick "Apply XAML hot reload on document save"
on "Xamarin.Forms" section tick "Full Page"
as shown in the image (red circled below).

On a project had the same issue , found out that i have to be in a XAML page
and not a XAML.CS page
Then hit save and it starts again and oke.
Common options - only Enable Just My XAML in Live Visual Tree
And in Xamarin.Forms option -Full page
ps
On your example it is White
BackgroundColor="White"

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