Blend for VS2012 not showing project templates

Question

I started using Blend for VS 2012RC and when i open Blend and then go to New Project, I can not see the option of selecting the project type. It is totally empty as shown below. Can anyone give me a help to resolve this.

And I also tried to create a WPF project in VS2012RC and opened it in Blend but I can not get the design views.

Answer 1

What version of windows do you have? It is windows 7 Right? I think the Blend that comes with VS2012 only works for Metro Applications templates, so if you are on Windows 7, this templates are not available to you.

Solution: for working with WPF/Silverlight templates, you may use the VS2012's designer. VS2012 have a designer very similar to Blend, it is not as good as Blend, but works, and also have several Blend's utilities.

You may also use the old Blend 4 with VS2012 projects that have target framework 4.0 or lower. For more details please see this question.

Hope this could be helpful for you...