Why isn't Expression Blend rendering my User Control? It's only showing XAML.

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Published on 2009-10-26T00:53:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 17:53 UTC
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I'm opening valid XAML within my VS2008 solution in Expression Blend 3 and it is only showing XAML when I try to open individual XAML files. My solution/projects all build and run correctly.

When I go to View -> Active Document View the Design View, Split View and XAML View options are all grayed out... which doesn't make much sense.

I'm not much of a Blend user, but this has never happened before, and I'm coming up blank for how to fix it. Any ideas?

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