VS2010 is installed in my machine and when we create wpf project from VS2010 IDE then can we open that wpf project from expression blend 3 & restyle the control and get back to VS2010 for coding. so i just want to know Expression blend 3 is compatible for VS2010 or VS2008?
please discuss. thanks
Your xaml would get updated with changes from Expression blend 3. And they work perfectly fine.
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Now that .net core support WinForms projects, I've ported an old project to .Net 5. I can edit code, desing GUI and compile, and everything seems to work fine except for Document Outline window (in Visual Studio 2019). All four buttons, move up, down, out and into, are disabled, so I cannot choose what to see on top at desing time.
I have created a new project from the scratch and those controls are still disabled.
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Any idea why? I can guess it's something microsoft is working on, but I cannot find any reference to this issue.
That's how it looks like for .Net 4.5
I have the following installed on a clean Windows 7 SP1 setup:
VS 2010 Ultimate
VS2010 SP1
Windows Phone 7.1 SDK
Expression Studio 4 Ultimate
Expression Blend 4 SP1
When I create a phone project in VS, all works.
When I load that same project (originally created in VS) I get resource not resolving errors for PhoneTextNormalStyle, PhoneTextTitle1Style, PhoneForgroundBrush, PhoneFontSizeNormal and PhoneFontFamilyNormal which follow this format:
The resource 'PhoneTextNormalStyle' could not be resolved
When I create a project in Blend, all works. When I load that project into VA, all works
I have tried uninstalling the reinstalling the bits in every order imaginable - maybe some sort of security Issue?
It appears blend is missing the Theme Resource Dictionaries you're trying to reference.
When you check your Resources tab in Blend (normally top right corner) what resource dictionaries appear available? More importantly, are the paths to your resource dictionaries correct in your app.xaml? Since VS uses Cider Designer instead of the same design presenter that blend does, these contingencies can occur often. Although I hear VS 2011 will use the same design presenter as blend...
Anyhow as I'm reading this I just noticed the date it was posted. If you're still having this issue then please reply and I can definitely help you resolve it when I get home from the office where I have access to my phone projects. Cheers!
I am a student & am newly introduced to the Microsoft Blend.
Its something really impressive & makes me design happily.
But I am facing a problem: Its fine about the designing part but what about the coding?
Where are we suppose to write the code? I mean how are we to import that file into Visual Studio 2010.
Please do tell me the solution ? I have been looking out for resources nearly everyday.
But its still in vague.
Thanking you.
Expression Blend is a tool meant for designers so it does not really focus much on features for writing code. It is actually designed to inter-operate well with Visual Studio and you should be able to just open any Blend project or solution in Visual Studio and do your coding there.
In fact, I often have both tools open at the same time with the same project open and it makes for a pretty smooth workflow. For example, if I make a change in Blend and then switch to Visual Studio it will prompt me to reload the changes.
If you have Visual Studio installed the easiest way is to click on a file inside the Projects tab and then choose Edit in Visual Studio (see image). Once you do that VS will load the project / solution and open the file for you to edit your file and or add code to it.
Does any one know how to set the startup project in Expression Blend 2? I have a solution which builds 2 executable files. I've set the Startup Project to the one I want to debug in Visual Studio and when I run it from VS that project launches no problem. However if I open the solution in Blend and press F5 to run it the other project always launches.
There doesn't seem to be a way of setting the Startup project in Blend, and it does seem to respect the setting in Visual Studio. Or am I missing something?
Why does Blend always launch the other project and is there anyway I can change this?
Thanks
Kaneda
In the project explorer (Blend), right-click the project name within the solution and make sure 'Startup Project' is checked.
I've only got Blend 3 RC to check on at the moment but I'm pretty sure this was also in Blend 2.
Ok, I see. Turns out that the feature was added with SP1 and I didn't have that installed. Installed that, now my solution launches properly
I'm a Silverlight newbie. Just downloaded version 3.0 after the Mix announcement. I'm running VS 2008 SP1. When I select a design element in the preview pane or in XAML, the properties window is disabled and displays
Property Editing Not Available
I can open the solution in Blend and have no problems with it's property editor. So within Visual Studio, I'm forced to enter everything in the XAML pane and rely on Intellisense.
Is something wrong with my installation or environment? Or am I supposed to switch back and forth between Expression Blend and Visual Studio (I can't believe that should be the case).
There is nothing wrong with your installation or environment. The XAML designer/editor in VS2008 is very limited in what it offers for XAML editing whatever the version of Silverlight, being really just a rendering engine at the moment.
Expression Blend is the visual editor of choice for now - there are 3rd party editors available (such as XAMLCruncher and Kaxaml) but they don't really support XAML with code-behind classes.
Additionally the Blend 3 preview that was released to support SL3 seems to have a few improvements which address previously inferior experience of directly editing XAML in Blend (notably IntelliSense).
I had the same problem with Visual studio 2010 and Silverlight 5.0. It was intermittent.
One thing I found to help is to switch the XAML page to show Design view and then switch back to Code view or vice versa. If you have hybrid view, just temporarily switch.
I did that and it just worked fine. I do n't know the reason it worked but it did.
Is something wrong with my installation or environment? Or am I supposed to switch back and forth between Expression Blend and Visual Studio (I can't believe that should be the case).
You'll find you need to do that a lot for both Silverlight and WPF if you want to make full use of the UI controls.
I find VS incredibly slow and clunky for designing and rendering XAML and much prefer Expression. Switching between the two is no big deal as really one's for code and ones for design.
I haven't download the Silverlight 3 Beta yet, but the Silverlight 2 designer intergration in visual studio is very poor.
VS 2010 is suppose to have better support for XAML Editing in WPF and Silverlight. So for now, you'll have to find the right balance between Blend and VS.
SilverLight 3.0 beta just shipped. VS2008 SP1 shipped last year. It would be surprising if it supported SilverLight 3.0 out of the box, and more suprising if the VS support that ships with SilverLight 3.0 beta were not "beta" quality.
If you find problems, then be certain to report them to Microsoft.