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One of the things that’s a bit annoying with Expression Blend is that when you go to reference an assembly you get the standard Windows file open dialog. That is;

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raises the dialog;

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and that’s not what you see in Visual Studio and makes hunting down the assemblies that you want a little more “tricky”. What I tend to do is to use a Windows 7 library to add all the locations for my typical assemblies and then it makes it relatively easy to find what I want – at the time of writing mine looks like this;

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and so when I’m hunting for the charting library from the toolkit I just need to bang in a search string;

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and it’s pretty quick to locate it.


Posted Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:46 AM by mtaulty
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Rod Mac wrote re: Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies
on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:54 PM

should designers really have to 'reference an assembly'? I also agree with Shawn W, events shouldn't appear in Blend.

Oleh wrote re: Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies
on Sat, Mar 19 2011 12:02 AM

yeap, common way!