the type from assembly is built with an older version of blend sdk and is not supported in a windows presentation foundation 4 project

Question

I created a WPF project in VS 2013. After upgrading to VS 2015, this error showed in the designer on types derived from the Blend SDK:

the type from a

Answer 1

Deleting the .vs file in the solution folder solved the issue. The issue happened for me after I updated My Visual Studio 2017 and Opened the project that was built before with an older version of Visual studio 2017.