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 read was that it happens when your application's Output Type is set to Console, which isn't the case for me. Anyone else seen this?
Blend for Visual Studio is a component of Visual Studio. To install Blend, in the Visual Studio Installer choose either the Universal Windows Platform development or . NET desktop development workload.
These include the artboard (which is the visual design surface), XAML editor, Document Outline window (Objects and Timeline window in Blend for Visual Studio), and Properties window. To open the XAML Designer, right-click a XAML file in Solution Explorer and choose View Designer.
Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications.
Apparantly, Blend included in VS2012 only supports Windows 8 Apps.
However, there's a preview been released for Blend + Sketchflow that allows other platforms here :
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30702
This appears to be the default Blend behavior when Blend does not support the .NET framework version that a project is configured to target. You can resolve this by opening the project in VS, opening the project properties(Alt-Enter), and changing the target framework to a supported version. For example, as of my writing this, Blend does not support .NET 4.5.2. You must convert it to 4.5.1 (c.f. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedbackdetail/view/934732/blend-for-visual-studio-2013-does-not-render-the-design-view-with-net-framework-4-5-2)
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