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Which version of Blend supports WPF 4.5, Portable Class Library?

I am creating a project structure for a new application with new fields. Our initial release will only support the WPF client, but we want to eventually deploy the Metro and Silverlight clients. I decided the following:

The main library is a portable class library focused on .NET for the metro, .NET 4.5, SL4, Windows Phone 7.5

WPF Application - .NET 4.5 Orientation

Our Model / ViewModel level is defined in the base library, the view defined in the WPF application. I chose .NET 4.5 to support the definition of the view model in the main library in a way that can be used by both WPF and Metro.

This works fine in the beta version of Visual Studio 11 running Windows 7 Pro. I have a working view that is bound to the ViewModel defined in the base library. My problem is Blend. When I open View in Blend, I have no designer. I suspect the problem is WPF support on .NET 4.5. I tried Blend 4 and Blend for VS11 Beta.

Does anyone know how to get a designer to work in Blend views for WPF as described above?

* Status on 2012-05-10: No combination of VS11 and Blend supports WPF 4.5.

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Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Update 2 , the Blend preview version ( Blend + Sketchflow Preview for VS2012 ) has been merged with the vanilla "Blend for Visual Studio 2012". This means that there is now one design application for all XAML platforms :

With Blend (for Visual Studio 2012) you can create and create:

  • Windows Store Apps
  • Windows Phone Apps
  • Sketchflow Prototypes
  • Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Applications
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edit: There is currently no Blend support for WPF 4.5. Here is the relevant information:

You need to install Visual Studio 11 Beta (Ultimate, Premium, or Professional - NOT Express, because you are missing the parts of the Blend that you want) in the Windows 8 preview build. That's exactly how they decided to figure it out. Even if you do, you still will not have WPF support:

Remember that in the beta version of Visual Studio XAML authoring, Windows 8 support is not quite at the same level of stability and completeness, but HTML support.

Windows 8 requirement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devschool/archive/2012/03/01/blend-5-and-visual-studio-11-awesome.aspx

Visual Studio Version: http://blendinsider.com/technical/visual-authoring-for-the-windows-8-consumer-preview-with-blend-and-visual-studio-2012-02-02-29/

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