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Blend fails to open a Visual Studio 11 Beta project

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    Jac Timms
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I was needed to open a Visual Studio 11 Beta Metro project in Blend and got the error:

The project 'MyProject.csproj' could not be opened. The imported project
'C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Windows\Xaml\v10.0\
Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml/CSharp.targets' was not found. Confirm that the path in the <import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

First thought was to edit the line that contains: v$(VisualStudioVersion)\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" in my csproj file, changing v$(VisualStudioVersion) to 11, but that's not a nice solution. To fix this properly, just use the setx command to set the value and restart Blend.

setx VisualStudioVersion 11.0