Visual Studio 2008 locks in ASPX design view

Had a strange problem today that took a couple hours to resolve.

I originally experienced it when I tried to add a new Web Content Form, once I selected the master page, Visual Studio 2008 would lockup.  Anywhere I clicked would return a windows beep.  If I moved other applications over the window, only the tab that contained the new page would not get repainted.

I also experienced it when opening an ASPX file and clicking the design view tab Visual Studio 2008 would lock or freeze. 

I could only kill the devenv.exe process. 

A little searching turned up some strange results and I finally stumbled across a couple posts that seemed to be intelligent. (post 1 | post 2).

I regurgitating it here in case those go linkdead.

The gist is that the Office 2010 install somehow fubared some shared components.  Personally, I only experienced pain when I installed Visio 2010 and not the Office 2010 install I did a few months ago.

Run the Office 2007 Setup file located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe

Now click ‘Repair’.

It ran a few minutes.  Run Visual Studio and fixed.