Managing your projects and files

This section includes topics about how to manage your Microsoft Expression Blend projects and files, and also how to test, debug, and deploy your projects. Some of the topics apply to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft Silverlight 1.0, and Silverlight 2 projects, or they link to the appropriate topics in the Quick start with Silverlight 1.0 and Quick start with Silverlight 2 sections.

In This Section

Conceptual

• Managing projects overview

• Deploy and publish Expression Blend applications

• Debug Expression Blend applications

How to

• 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

• Test a project

• 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

See also

Concepts

Quick start with Silverlight 1.0