XAML Editor hangs for 4-10 seconds driving me mad

I know similar questions exists but they don't address this exact problem.

I'm having an issue with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 whereby it hangs for 4-10 seconds whenever the xaml edit receives focus. It is literally driving me to despair and I'm about to move back to Winforms. Note - Just editing the straight up xaml (i.e no designer enabled) doesn't fix the issue.

I have done the following :

• Disable the xaml designer
• Disable all plugins Checked FileMon for activity during the hang (there is none)
• Checked Disk / Paging for activity 开发者_如何学Gothe hang (again, none)
• Uninstalled Silverlight

Setup : Windows XP64 8 Core Zeon, 16Gb RAM

The designer for XAML in VS 2008 is weak. Many of these issues have been addressed and dramatically improved in VS 2010 (even in beta 2).

I've started using Blend exclusively for designer-work, and just setup VS to use the XML editor (instead of the designer) for dealing with XAML files. This makes editing instantaneous within Visual Studio, although you need to swap out to Blend if you want a design time experience.

For me, the XML editor just didn't quite work right. What I did was in Tools/Options/Text Editor/XAML/Miscellaneous, activate "Always open documents in full XAML view." This prevents the IDE from trying to render your xaml at open and get right to editing your XAML. When you are ready to pay the render penalty, you can click on the design tab.

Because everyone knows writing xaml by hand is faster and more fun :)

I had exactly same issue with XAML editor - every time I focused, saved, opened XAML code, the Visual Studio got stuck for few seconds.

For me the solution was removing reference to Microsoft.mshtml - I don't understand the reason (if someone does, please comment), but it really was the only problem and removing the reference solved my nightmare.