What causes Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to crash when switch to Design View of a WPF application

Question

After developing a WPF application without Source Control, I decided to add the solution to TFS.

After doing so whenever I opened the main window.xaml file in Design

Answer 1

There is an hot-fix available from Microsoft: Microsoft Connect. I found this link on this blog.

This fix solved the problem after a restart for me.

Answer 2

The problem was caused by a Visual Studio add-in named, "Power Commands for Visual Studio 2008".

After uninstalling them and restarting Visual Studio, the design view for xaml files began working normally.