Hi Stephen,

I debugged Blend indeed, that's how I found out where the problem was. 
Unfortunately I don't know why, as the ModelTypeDescriptionProvider's method is 
called directly from Blend code so I can't really dig into that any more. :(

Regards,
Adrian

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Stephen Price
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:22 AM
To: ozWPF
Subject: Re: MicroModels and design time

Have you tried attaching Visual Studio to Blend and debugging the page to see 
why it's null?
I've seen examples of making classes sense if they are in run time or design 
time (Silverlight and WPF) so that your page is "Blendable".
cheers,
Stephen (not Paul. Sorry ;)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Adrian Hara 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Paul & guys,

I'm trying to make a MicroModel blendable, i.e. have a nice blend experience 
with some mock data and can't get it to work. My approach is to inherit from 
the actual view model with say a FooDesignTimeViewModel and populate it with 
some mock data. Then in xaml I use an ObjectDataProvider and the 
"d:DataContext" attribute to load it up at design time.

However, I hit a brick wall in that when Blend calls the 
ModelTypeDescriptionProvider's GetTypeDescriptor method, the passed in 
"instance" is NULL. Is there some rule about type descriptors not working at 
design-time in blend or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Adrian

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