Question

Good Day everyone!!

One question.. or two..

Is it possible to use Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 2008???

if it is… how??

I did this:

Install VS2008
Install Expression 4
Install VS2008 SP1
Install Silverlight 3 Tools
Remove Silverlight 4 registry key
Install Silverlight 3 Developer (Silverlight_Developer.exe, to enable Silverlight debugging in VS2008)

Then… when I try to open a Expression Blend 4 Solution in VS2008 it says that the version used is more recent…
So I open the sln file and change version 11.0 to 10.0

Now VS2008 opens the sln from Blend 4, and since I created the solution using Version 3, I supossed there wouldn’t be any problem, but VS2008 doesn’t render any escene…

If I press F5 the project compiles and launches in Explorer… but I can’t do anything with VS2008… just edit in code but not in design…

or am I mistaking everything???? I come from Flash.. and I’m used to create something in Flash, then use it as an object in HTML…

This time I created a menu in Blend 4… but how do I use it in a ASPX??? how do I assign actions to my buttons???

sorry for so many questions 🙁 I’ve been reading some tutorials but all of them are for design in Blend 4… not to use those solutions in VS2008

Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

1. Create a Blend 4 project (havent tried with vs2008), If you have one skip.

2. Open *.sln file and change:

   Format Version 11.00 -> Format Version 10.00

   # Visual Studio 2010 -> # Visual Studio 2008
   

3. Open *.csproj file and change:

   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath32)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   

   to

   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   

Now you can open your Blend 4 project inside vs 2008. To open in blend again just reverse step 3.