Blend 2 December Preview.

The December Preview of Blend 2 has been published. To download it you can go to this link.

In a quick review to prepare a demo for Microsoft Andino I have found two interesting features:

• The Solution can now handle multiple projects, which will allow rebuilding and reusing controls that were in different projects.
  
• The different panels can now be closed with the usual x that we missed so much before.

There are many more that can be read on the same download site.

A Comment.

When creating a new project you can now select the framework you want to use to compile; this was already in the previous version (September preview), but it was only enabled if framework 3.5 was installed. (Which by the way caused many headaches with new projects created after installing Framework 3.5). I imagine it is for the same reason that in this current version all the projects and solutions that are created are for VS2008, which makes sense but is complicated for all of us who had been using blend, we want the improvements of the latest version but we are not on VS2008 yet.

It can also be seen as one more excuse to migrate to VS2008. (Others in a future post…)

I hope it helps

Juan Peláez

MCTS.

Member of the Microsoft Andean Influencer Framework

Member of the Microsoft Andean Speaker Group.

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