Another fun bug in VS:Orcas + Blend

Seems when you create a Silverlight project in VS: Orcas, it generates XAML that will not render in Expression Blend. Funny, right? Great part is that if you create the project in Blend, modify the code to look identical to the XAML in the VS project.

This is the basic start up code in VS: Orcas. (New Project->C#->Silverlight Project)



Now when you right click Page.xaml in the solution explorer, Blend loads up and gives you this lovely little screen.



Now, lets start up a new project in Blend, which still doesn't offer me the ability to make a 1.1 project. Tada, the Xaml renders... amazing.



Well apparently there's something up with that code that VS:Orcas creates for us.. or is there? I'll copy the code from the VS:Orcas project and paste it into the Blend project. Surely it will fail.
Wait...




What is this?! It works? Oh me oh my. Why could it be? This is one of the multitude of little annoyances that I'm finding in the tools. Not to complain that much, certainly a bit more fun than my previous encounters with Coldfusion and Dreamweaver. I just wish when I posted my questions on the forums I could actually get a useful answer.. even a "it's broken, we're looking into it" would be nice.