How to open a blend 4 project in Visual Studio 2010 without having Blend

Question

Hello,

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

Answer 1

I gave to my colleague the libraries I have in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend.NETFramework\v4.0\Libraries

and he overwrote the one he had installed with the Blend SDK.

And it worked :-)

I don't understand why there isn't a simple way to do it... Have i missed something?