Expression Blend + Sketchflow - Addin?

Question

Has anyone been able to get an extension up and running Expression Blend + Sketchflow preview? I'm looking for an example project.

I was following this article, but it is a bit outdated.

So far I:

Created a .Net 4.5 class library project
Added a reference to the Microsoft.Expression.Extensibility.dll in the new Blend Preview directory
Set my project to deploy to the appropriate Addins directory
Setup Visual Studio to run the new Blend.exe for debugging
Hooked up MEF and inherited IPlugin as in the example

But my plugin doesn't seem to load and no breakpoints are hit.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '13 at 20:05

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Got it working by following the demo here.

I used the few modifications above, and put things in the Blend Preview directory.

answered Feb 13 '13 at 20:05

jonathanpeppers

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '13 at 22:12

After reading your question I decided to start working on a new version of that tutorial.

A few things to get you started right away.

I've created the basic plugin like this:

using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
using Microsoft.Expression.Extensibility;

namespace Demo.Extension
{
    [Export(typeof (IPackage))]
    public class Demo : IPackage
    {
        public void Load(IServices services)
        {
        }

        public void Unload()
        {
        }
    }
}

Make sure you:

place the plugins in ...\Blend Preview\extensions
run visual studio as administrator to be able to deploy to that folder during debug
implement the IPackage instead of IPlugin

I think my real problem was that I was putting my DLL in the "Addins" folder because that folder already existed. I just set Visual Studio to deploy to "Extensions" and everything started working. — jonathanpeppers, Feb 14 '13 at 04:19

Expression Blend + Sketchflow - Addin?

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