The designer of VS crashes with a "Key cannot be null" when custom markup extension is used in Style Setter. This reproduces in the sample app attached in the blog (http://www.telerik.com/blogs/bring-office-2016-inspired-style-to-your-app-with-ui-for-wpf) on the TextBlock of the RabRadioButton HeadingStyle (snapshot attached) if you open MainWindow in Designer. Runtime everything works as expected.