Visual Studio Missing "Open in blend" option

Someone asked on Stack Overflow:

Am I missing something or does that “Open in blend” option in Visual Studio 2008 not exist anymore?

I am using VS 2008 SP1 + Expression Studio 3.0.

I can do it the other way around, from blend to visual studio, but not visual studio to blend.

Cheers

I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer and received 3 upvotes:

For me, the “Open in Expression Blend” is only available in Silverlight projects, for WPF projects the option does not exist.


Originally posted on Stack Overflow — 3 upvotes (accepted answer). Licensed under CC BY-SA.

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