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Expression Studio 2

Expression Blend 2

Managing your projects and files

Managing projects overview

Deploy and publish Expression Blend applications

Debug Expression Blend applications

Create a new document or project

Open a project or solution

Send your project to Visual Studio

Browse a project folder

Create a new folder in a project

Save a document, project, or solution

Create a duplicate of your project

Close a document, project, or solution

Delete a document, item, project, or solution

Copy and paste or cut and paste a document

Add, link to, or remove an existing item from a project

Add or remove a reference

Add a new or existing project to a solution

Insert an item into the active document

Change the active document

Rename a project file

Undo or redo an action

Set a startup document for your project

Build a project

Debug Expression Blend applications in Visual Studio 2008

Import XAML that is exported from Expression Design

Minimize

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Open a project or solution

Expression Studio 2.0

To open a WPF project

On the File menu, click Open, and then click Project/Solution, and then browse to the project (.csproj or .vbproj) or solution (.sln) file that you want to open.
Select the project or solution file, and then click Open.

To open a Silverlight 1.0 project

See Open a Silverlight 1.0 project.

To open a Silverlight 2 project

See Open an existing Silverlight 2 project.

To open a recently edited project

On the File menu, click Recent Projects. The ten most recently edited projects appear in a list.
Select a project from the list.

Tip:

You can also open a recently edited project by using the Projects tab on the Welcome Screen (Help menu).

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