Visual Studio Missing “Open in blend” option

Question

Am I missing something or does that "Open in blend" option in Visual Studio 2008 not exist anymore?

I am using VS 2008 SP1 + Expression Studio 3.0.

I can do it the other way around, from blend to visual studio, but not visual studio to blend.

Cheers

Answer 1

For me, the "Open in Expression Blend" is only available in Silverlight projects, for WPF projects the option does not exist.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, I had the trial version of blend, uninstalled and then installed Expression Studio (from my MSDN subscription). The option in Silverlight projects was gone.

I found here that all I needed to do was to add the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Expression\Blend\VS\BlendLaunchPath

And this should point to the full path where expession blend is (in my case: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Expression\Blend 3\Blend.exe)

After this all I needed to do was to restart Visual Studio and there it was again!

Hope this helps.