the type from assembly is built with an older version of blend sdk and is not supported in a windows presentation foundation 4 project

c# wpf visual-studio blend
Domysee picture Domysee · Aug 15, 2015 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I created a WPF project in VS 2013. After upgrading to VS 2015, this error showed in the designer on types derived from the Blend SDK:

the type from assembly is built with an older version of blend sdk and is not supported in a windows presentation foundation 4 project

Answer

Lücks picture Lücks · Mar 29, 2016

  1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator

  2. Change Directory to Blend SDK: cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend\.NETFramework\v4.5\Libraries\

  3. Register DLL: gacutil -i System.Windows.Interactivity.dll

  4. Restart Visual Studio

Reference: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/755407/xaml-designer-will-not-display-when-using-blend-sdk-behaviors

Related questions

How can I disable horizontal scrolling in a WPF ListBox?

This seems to be an absurdly simple question but Google and Stack Overflow searches yield nothing. How can I disable horizontal scrolling in a WPF ListBox when items take up more horizontal space than is available in the box?

Read More
The call is ambiguous between the following methods: Identical.NameSpace.InitializeComponent() and Identical.NameSpace.InitializeComponent()

Ok, I suspect this might be a Visual Studio thing, but there must be some reason for this. I created from the list of default items a ListBox (Right Click on project, or folder in project -> Add -&…

Read More
Where to store external DLL files?

In my project I'm using some third-party libraries. I include them using the references folder in Visual Studio. But where should I save the DLL files? They are referenced from a path in the file system, but it would be …

Read More