I have a problem where the Visual form designer will hang and just freeze the entire VS application. It happens even on very simple forms - I have no third party controls, etc...and my forms consist of just standard textboxes, listviews, buttons, tabgroups, a couple line shapes, and that's about it.
Sometimes it will happen when it tries to load the form initially, but usually it will happen when I already have the form open and am clicking between controls on the form.
The project runs fine in debug mode and compiles to an exe with no problems. When it hangs I do notice in task manager that the amount of RAM it is using starts to increase quickly and keeps on going until I kill the process.
Is there anything I can do to help track this issue down? Are there any hotfixes out there for this type of problem? It's very annoying to have to kill VS and restart it several times a day, and losing any unsaved work.
This is happening in VS Express 2012, and I'm using C#. I also have VS 2010 Pro, and have the same problem in that. Maybe it's something to do with a video driver or some other issue?