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 View Visual Studio would disappear and the following event would be logged in the Application Event log:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Answer 1

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.