Blend does not display localized string - windows-runtime

Question

I am writing a Windows 8 store app in xaml and c#, and am localizing strings using the approach outlined in msdn .
It shows the string correctly when the app runs, but in Expression Blend design-time it always shows an empty string.
<TextBlock x:Uid="IDST_LOAD_TITLE" x:Name="pageTitle" Text=""
Grid.Column="1" IsHitTestVisible="false"
Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}"/>
I've tried even getting rid of Text="" completely...
Any way to get this to work?
Thank you

Answer 1

I solved it this way:
create a class such as:
public class Strang
{
public string IDST_LOAD_TITLE
{ get { return Strings.IDST_LOAD_TITLE; } }
public string IDST_SAVE_TITLE
{ get { return Strings.IDST_SAVE_TITLE; } }
...
add it to your app.xaml:
<Application
x:Class="MyApp.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:myApp="using:MyApp"
>
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Common/StandardStyles.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<!-- Look here! -->
<myApp:Strang x:Key="Strang" />
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
and then in your page's xaml code, do something like so:
<TextBlock
x:Name="m_titleStatic"
Text="{Binding IDST_LOAD_TITLE}"
DataContext="{StaticResource Strang}"
/>