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The blend-2012 tag is for Blend for Visual Studio 2012 related issues.

Blend for Visual Studio 2012 helps you design and build user interfaces by providing you with an accurate design surface and tools that let you visually create and edit Windows Store applications. These new design tools take advantage of Windows 8 technologies to create dynamic applications that run on a wide variety of Windows-based hardware. You can choose to design your user interface using HTML or XAML.

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where is blend for visual studio 2012

I see a lot of refs to something called 'blend for visual studio' which I understand a W8 version of blend. I have VS2012 Ultimate installed on W8 and I don't see any blend. I looked into my MSDN Pro subscription and I don't see neither separate…
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Blend for Visual Studio 2012 - No design view

I have a normal WPF MVVM-Light application, that I tried opening in Blend (first time I used Blend for Visual Studio 2012 on my Windows 8 machine). However, I'm not able to open the Design View, which pretty much renders Blend useless. One issue I…
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How to fix New Project empty list in Blend for Visual Studio 2012 RC?

I have just installed Visual Studio 2012 RC that come with Blend standalone version. When I start a new project the list is empty, there are no templates to choose from. Do you have any idea how to solve the problem?
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WPF, Blend of Visual Studio?

I have heard of complaints using WPF (the xaml designer) with VS 2008-2010, but not with 2012. Is it still the standard to using Blend or does VS 2012 have everything we need? I know there was a recent release "Blend for Visual Studio". Is this the…
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Visual Studio 2012 w/ Blend - where is System.Windows.Interactivity?

I have a brand new install of VS 2012 Premium on Win8 and am trying to open an existing Silverlight project. The project has a reference to System.Windows.Interactivity.dll which cannot be found. VS2012 has Blend built in but where is the SDK? Do…
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Blend for visual studio 2012 connect to team foundation server 2012 server everytime blend gain focus

I'm working with visual studio 2012 and blend for visual studio 2012 simultaneously. The problem i have is that every time I switch to blend, it tries to connect to team foundation server causing about 10 seconds delays. This gets annoying real fast…
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Blend for Visual Studio 2012 design view not working

I'm working on a Windows Store App in Visual Studio 2012 and decided it might be easier to start using blend for the interface and layout. But in my attempts to make this layout design easier for myself, I have run into a problem with the design…
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Crash when "Create Data Binding" in Blend for Visual Studio 2012

Blend for Visual Studio 2012 always freeze when I click on "Create Data Binding". I am using Windows 8 Professional 64 bit on MacBook Pro. Have anyone experience the same error I am having?
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Any way to make Project References work without loading them in the solution in Expression Blend?

We have a Solution with 25 projects in it referencing each other and it builds successfully in Visual Studio 2012. But when it comes to Expression Blend (Blend for Visual Studio 2012), I am having the following issues : 1) The solution fails to…
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Blend for visual studio 2012 disabled for non windows 8 development in update 2 final

When Visual Studio 2012 is released, Blend for Visual Studio 2012 is only enabled for Windows 8 App development. Theres Blend sketchflow preview for visual studio 2012 for other than windows 8 development. Later, Update 2 ctp is released and Blend…
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How do you edit styles in WPF 4.5 under Windows 7?

I just realised that Blend for Visual Studio 2012 does not support WPF apps under W7. Once I opened a window I can only see raw XAML. I need to edit a style for a chart dataseries System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Charting. I normally use…
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Blend in visual studio 2012: Missing the "resources" window i used to use in blend 4

In blend 4 i often open a resource dictionary (i.e. "Generic.xaml") by clicking the "resources" tab (next to the property tab on the right pane), navigate to a resource and click on its icon to edit it in the designer. In blend for visual studio…
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How to create a motion path in Blend 5?

How to create a motion path in Blend 5 visual studio 2012 There is no convert to motion path as was in Blend 4 ?
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Windows Embedded Compact 2013 - Initial Application Focus

I have a log in screen when my application starts and would like the cursor to be waiting in the user name text box to type (without clicking). I was able to focus the cursor after the grid loads: HRESULT MainPage::OnLoaded(__in IXRDependencyObject*…
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How to Edit Jump Style in LongListSelector Window Phone 8 and Blend 2012

I am trying to use Blend 2012 to edit the Jump List Area that you can setup with the now built in longlistselector. I never had a problem doing it with the Windows Phone Toolkit but now I have huge trouble. I try to make a copy of the template and…
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