What causes the VS 2010 SP1 WPF Designer to crash?

Question

We\'re experiencing crashes on various machines in the VS2010 WPF designer in the following scenario:

• VS 2010 SP1 installed
• 64 Bit Windows 7

Answer 1

We sometimes get around this by adding

if (System.ComponentModel.DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(this))
                return;

in the loaded event of the offending control