The tag 'Interaction.Behaviors' does not exist in VS2010 (Blend 3)
There seems to be a problem with support for the Interactivity namespace of Blend 3 in the VS2010 xaml editor. I have the following installed:
- VS2010
- Blend 3 + Blend 3 SDK
I am trying to compile a demo project that is targeted at .Net 4 Client Profile and has a reference to System.Windows.Interactivity (in the Blend 3 folder).
In the object browser everything appears to be fine. I can also access Interaction.Behaviours from code-behind, but if I put the namespace xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity" in the xaml file and try to use it, the intellisense is blank.
If I copy something in there anyway, the compiler says:
The tag 'Interaction.Behaviors' does not exist in XML namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity'.
Do I need to install Blend 4 RC or something?
Answer
@TomTom and all SDK 4.0 suggestors:
There is a huge killer criteria that prevents many develpers like me from downloading and using SDK 4.0 even if it is for free: It uses .NET 4.0.
You may ask what's wrong with .NET 4.0? Nothing, except as for today (2013-06-13) still many of our customers don't have it installed on their servers (on the clients it's usually no problem). So if you develop software that should also run on servers, you are forced to use .NET 3.5 even if .NET 4.5 would be state-of-the-art.
@everybody
Does anybody have a solution to Andre Luus original question? How must the namespace import in XAML look like in VS2010 if "System.Windows.Interactivity.dll" of Blend SDK 3.5 for WPF is referenced? (Or was <i:Interaction.Behaviors> named differently in 3.5?)
Addendum:
The solution is:
xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"