Visual Studio 2010 Not Reponsing as soon as I switch to design view to an webpage

Question

Issue: Visual Studio stops responding as I switch to design view of a web page.

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Scenario:
Visual Studio 2010
Windows 7 64 bit
TFS 2010

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It was working all fine, however since last 2 weeks visual studio 2010 started freezing everything I switch to design view of a webpage.
Earlier it use to freeze for a minute or two. Now its wont response at all and I would have to close the application and restart it.

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Steps tried:

Repaired Visual Studio 2010
Reinstalled Windows
Installed Visual studio 2010

Will appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Hi Hitin,

It is weird,  please try some common workarounds mentioned below to handle this issue:
  1. Try running devenv /Resetsettings in Command Prompt to eliminate the cause of corrupted settings.
  2. Try running devenv /ResetSkipPkgs in Command Prompt.
  3. Try running devenv /Safemode in Command Prompt to see if you can apply it correctly.
  4. Reboot the machine into Safe Mode. This can isolate some third party application/driver's interference.
  5. Switch to try a new user account. This can rule out the possibility of corrupted user profile.

If the above suggestions don't work, please try checking in your event log and see if you see any exceptions that are logged around the time that the error occurs. It might shed some light on this problem.
For more information on how to view event log, please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427

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Lucy Liu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Thanks Lucy,

I have tried the steps mentioned above. But still I faced same issue. Below is the event log

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Application Hung
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- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

- <System>

<Provider Name="Application Hang" />

<EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>101</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-05-08T10:56:58.000000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>2606</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>devH</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

- <EventData>

<Data>devenv.exe</Data>

<Data>10.0.30319.1</Data>

<Data>12d8</Data>

<Data>01cd2d041e2ed0bd</Data>

<Data>13</Data>

<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe</Data>

<Data>86a7a54e-98fc-11e1-a22d-180373db4d97</Data>

<Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>

</EventData>

</Event>

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Windows Error Reporting
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- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

- <System>

<Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" />

<EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID>

<Level>4</Level>

<Task>0</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-05-08T10:56:58.000000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>2605</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>devH</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

- <EventData>

<Data />

<Data>0</Data>

<Data>AppHangB1</Data>

<Data>Not available</Data>

<Data>0</Data>

<Data>devenv.exe</Data>

<Data>10.0.30319.1</Data>

<Data>4ba1fab3</Data>

<Data>9a71</Data>

<Data>0</Data>

<Data />

<Data />

<Data />

<Data />

<Data />

<Data />

<Data>C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppHang_devenv.exe_8b4832979b2e999154e8506e11f6dc3d701f20_0c11ab38</Data>

<Data />

<Data>0</Data>

<Data>86a7a54e-98fc-11e1-a22d-180373db4d97</Data>

<Data>0</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

Thank you and appreciate your help.

Hitin

Answer 3

Hi Lucy,

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 seems to solve the problem ..... not sure for how long ... LOL!!

Thanks for the help !

Regards,

Hitin