Today I’ve restarted Visual Studio 2008 some 8 or 9 times, oh, did I say restarted, I meant killed the devenv.exe process. The reason of this is that on every one of those occasions I was opening a .aspx or .master file in my web project, when Visual Studio suddenly freezes and stops responding.
I could explain how I felt but it wouldn’t be suitable for minors reading this.
Since I have never experienced this before and my laptop has an SSD drive my first thought was that some memory banks where getting corrupted. I threw away that thought when I, without any problems could open the same file in Notepad++ and gVim. So it was back to MS.
I finally found an old post from 2009 that hinted that a component installed called "Microsoft Visual Studio Web authoring Component" could be the crook behind all evil. I actually don’t have a clue of what good this component does, if any, for me it was most bad.
Anyway I uninstalled the Microsoft Visual Studio Web authoring Component and my headache was gone.