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Hi this is a very 'beginner' question. I am doing a tutorial with Expression Blend, it is a Silverlight tutorial but I am trying to follow along in a new WPF project. I cannot seem to get the intellisense to work when I type 'colors' in the following line:

Me.myRectangle.Fill = New SolidColorBrush(Colors.Beige)

As soon as I type the dot at the end of Colors I get no intellisense. Even if I type System.Windows.Media.Colors. , it still offers no help. Even if I put 

Imports System.Windows.Media

at the top there is no difference.

If I do this in Visual Studio it works fine, and I get prompting for which color I want.

Am I expecting too much of Blend? The tutorial I am following (Silverlight in C#) shows it working normally, so why would it not work for WPF VB?

All I did in the beginning was create a new project (in Blend, Visual Basic language, Framework Version 4.0), then put down a rectangle and a button. I selected the button, then Properties -> Events and double clicked 'Click' to create the event in the code-behind.

Thanks for any advice.

Sai Kalyan Kumar Akshinthala
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  • I would imagine Blend has some issue with producing the IntelliSense for VB.NET in some areas. Have you made sure your version of Blend is fully up to date? – Samuel Slade Dec 20 '11 at 08:19
  • I can't say for sure how it should work because I refuse to write code in Blend, just like I refuse to design XAML in Visual Studio. – Joel Cochran Dec 20 '11 at 14:39

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Eventually I discovered that the Intellisense wasn't working because, like any other normal person, I was typing "color" in lower case and for whatever reason in Blend 4, lower case does not trigger the Intellisense engine. It was only when I started capitalizing 'Color' that it worked normally. ???? I wonder why the weird divergence from Visual Studio 2010?

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