How to open a blend 4 project in Visual Studio 2010 without having Blend
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9037213
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20-04-2021 - |
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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
Solution 3
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:
.Net/WPF:
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.
OTHER TIPS
For what it's worth, I had a similar problem compiling a Silverlight/WPF solution under VS2010 SP1 and .NET 4.0, and I believe it was occurring within XAML code generation. Google search revealed this error message to be very generic.
In my case, I infer the problem to be that Blend 4 installed on Windows 7 and Blend 4 installed on Windows XP results in two slightly different System.Windows.Interactivity.Dll files: the XP file is Assembly Version 4.0.5.0, and dated 5/20/2010, while the Windows 7 file is Assembly Version 4.0.0.0, file date 5/25/2010 (seems a bit anti-causal, no?). When I uninstalled Blend 4 from my XP box and kept only the 4.0.0.0 version, the problem went away.
As I mentioned, this seems to be a very generic error that can be triggered by a number of conditions, but take a close look at the assembly versions of the DLLs involved.
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?
