DesignInstance not working in VS2012
问题 I just spent several hours on an issue when using VS2012, WPF 4.5 and design-time data, specifically the DesignInstance attribute. Goal : I wanted to have design-time data support in my WPF project (MVVM-based), both in VS2012 and Blend, and I could not for the life of me make the MVVMLight approach work consistently . So I tried to change to "just" using the built-in support for design-time data, using the markup extension provided with Blend. Problem : Consider the following code: <Window x