Expression Blend & WPF VS2012

[Jc]

Hi,

I 'm actually designing a new WPF application based on RadControls Q2 2012 with VS2012 RC / windows 7.
I would like to customize RadGridView styles. I imagine that using Blend would simplify the task.
The problem is that Blend 5 does not support wpf nor silverlight projects on windows 7:
See this link http://social.expression.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/blend/thread/8cdd9710-8aa0-4fea-aef8-ce2709a8f5d8

How could I easily customize the RadControls Q2 2012 styles?
Thank's for your help.
JC

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Jc Colin,

 


RadGridView can be easily styled with Microsoft Expression Blend, please check our documentation for further reference. You can use Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for WPF4 and Silverlight4.
For Silverlight 5 you may use Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5. 
They will work correctly under Windows 7. 

Regards,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team

[Jc]

I've tried to open a vs2012 wpf project  with Blend 4.0, and it works with xaml view.
In order to get the design view, I was obliged to go back to VS2012 and change the wpf projects 
target framework to 4.0.
Thank you!

[Jc]

Hi,

FYI, I've installed the latest Blend version: Blend Preview for Visual Studio 2012 
It works fine with WPF / .Net 4.5 now.

JC