Expression Blend 3 not working well with VS 2008 SP1

07-16-2009 5:11 AM |

Hi there,

We successfully created a SketchFlow project with 5 pages and 4 controls on each, but the default class names are a problem when you go to use them as assets. "Screen_1_1" is not as useful as say "PageBanner".

You can't rename the classes inside Expression Blend (only the filenames and SketchFlow display names) so "Edit in Visual Studio" would seem to be the best option. However...

How to crash out of VS 2008 with no error message:

• Inside an Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow project select a screen .cs file.
• Right-click the file and select "Edit in Visual Studio".
• Build the project in VS 2008 - just to make sure it is stable
• Open one of the page codebehind .cs files.
• Select the class name, right-click and choose Refactor | Rename
• Accept the list of changes
• VS 2008 exits with no warning and no changes have been made

Any thoughts on how to avoid this unexpected shutdown? We have had the odd random crash of Expression Blend 3 itself, but this problem is slowing us down us a bit.

Thanks