Expression Blend 4 and VS 2008 SP1

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

yeah.. im also having the same problem with you.. i used blend 4 to create a wpf application. but i cant open it in the visual studio 2008. please someone who can answer? anyone?

Answer 2

Expression Blend 4 uses the Visual Studio 2010 file formats.
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Blend_ReleaseNotes.aspx

Start here for Expression Blend tutorials:
http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc136522.aspx

And this (it's 8 parts):
http://timheuer.com/blog/articles/getting-started-with-silverlight-development.aspx