Here's a little update about the Blend 5 issue I had on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. See this post for all the details.
The problem is that installing VS11, Blend 5 Beta, VS2010 and Expression Blend 4 side by side, Blend 5 can't create/open any Metro style project templates.
Investigating on the problem, I found that when opening/creating projects in Blend 5, the environment variable "VisualStudioVersion" is set to 10.0, instead of 11.0. This way the MSBuild import defined in a VS11 project fails (because the path where it looks for build targets doesn't exist).
The workaround is simple:
- create/edit Metro style solutions using VS11 Beta
- manually edit each project in the solution and remove the condition clause in the VisualStudioVersion PropertyGroup.
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(VisualStudioVersion)' == '' ">
11.0 Now you can open any projects in Blend 5 without errors.
I don't know if the workaround I found is the best way to solve the issue, but at the moment it works. If anybody has a better solution, let me know!