Visual Studio 2008 Hangs in Design View with ASP.Net web pages

While trying to open ASP.Net web pages in Design view, Visual Studio 2008 IDE Hangs

To solve the problem in designer, follow the steps mentioned below:

1) Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component.

2) Reinstall the Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component from DVD (look into the WCU folder where you can find WebDesignerCore.exe).

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 27, 2010
  This works. Thanks a bunch. It saved me hours of time fiddling with installations.

• Anonymous
  July 29, 2010
  Hi first excuse me for my bad English, I solved this problem for myself, and I hope yours to be solved too MY PROBLEM : with one of my ASP projects, when I switched to design view in VS2008 , it were hanged. MY SOLUTION : I use <%-- --%> and commented all lines of my MasterPage and then I had no problem for switching to design view, then I converged it in arrived to an ANCHOR tag : <a href="Default.aspx">TEXT</a> when I converted it to <a href="~/Default.aspx">TEXT</a> my problem were solved.

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2010
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• Anonymous
  September 10, 2012
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• Anonymous
  July 20, 2013
  Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works

• Anonymous
  July 24, 2013
  Lifesaver !

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2014
  Thanks a Lot !!!!

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2014
  Worked for me. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  June 25, 2014
  thanks a lot . it work fine for me...