why does expression blend open the solution

I brow开发者_如何学编程se to a single project in my solution that I want to open and expression blend opens the entire solution instead. Any way to avoid this?

Expression Blend and Visual Studio share the same .sln and csproj/vbproj formats. Visual Studio always opens a solution file at the same time that it opens the project file. If VS can find a related sln file, then it opens that one in conjunction with the project file. I assume Blend works the same way. So in your case, that means all the associated projects are loaded too.

If VS cannot find a matching sln file, then it creates an empty solution and adds your project. That's why you sometimes get prompted to save a solution, when closing VS/Blend.

-- Yes, I see this is an old question... but still worth answering I think.