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Asked: 2026-05-18T07:02:28+00:00

I just discovered Expression Blend 4 and was amazed by the possibilities it supplies.

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I just discovered Expression Blend 4 and was amazed by the possibilities it supplies.

After having created an HMI prototype in blend, I tried to send it to a colleague who doesn’t have Blend, but he couldn’t build it.

I googled around and found a Blend 4 SDK, which he installed.

Unfortunately, he still cannot build the project…

Here’s the error message he gets :

Error 1 Unknown build error, ‘Cannot
resolve dependency to assembly
‘System.Windows, Version=2.0.5.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e’
because it has not been preloaded.
When using the ReflectionOnly APIs,
dependent assemblies must be
pre-loaded or loaded on demand through
the ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve
event.’

Do you know a way to easily open a blend 4 project from Visual Studio 2010?

Thank you for your help,

Antoine

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  1. Editorial Team

    In fact, anyone who wants to open a Blend Solution with Visual Studio (without having Blend installed) should just download and install the Blend SDK:

    Silverlight:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d197f51a-de07-4edf-9cba-1f1b4a22110d&displaylang=en

    .Net/WPF:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=75e13d71-7c53-4382-9592-6c07c6a00207&displaylang=en

    As for redistribution, you may also find a EULA and redistribution rules in the installed directory, such as:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend.NETFramework\v4.0

    and

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend\Silverlight\v4.0

    PS : thanks to Chuck Hays for this information.

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