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I have a strange problem that I see when switching to the ASP.NET designer in VS2010. It doesn't happen every time but once it's happened once it continues every time until I reboot.

Basically, when I click the "Design" button/tab to switch from the HTML to the designer, the text "Requesting Data..." appears in the status bar and the mouse pointer changes to and arrow with a spinning wait indicator. When this happens, the mouse continues to work but the keyboard input starts to fail. I can usually type but can't backspace or delete and I can't cut, copy or paste. Every other application continues to function normally so it's isolated to VS2010. It's also only affecting the designer. If I hit the "Source" button/tab to go back to the HTML, everything returns to normal.

This happens on really basic pages. My pages have a master page but the master page and the normal pages only contain basic html tags and the odd ASP.NET textbox or button.

Cody Gray - on strike
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Jimbob
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    The design mode in visual studio has never been the best, I tend to avoid it, perhaps thats the answer :-) – m.edmondson Jan 22 '11 at 21:53
  • I do too but the job I'm doing requires lots of text editing and it's so much easier in design mode. – Jimbob Jan 27 '11 at 10:12
  • Jimbob, as m.edmondson suggested, it is better to avoid the design mode in VS. It is as if "enter at your own risk!". – Rajeev Nair Mar 01 '11 at 13:35
  • Could it be related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1553147/vs2008-partially-freezing-when-switching-to-html-design-view/7637088#7637088 ? If not, there are some debugging tips there to help track it down. – Jon Adams Oct 18 '11 at 14:44

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I do not know why that message shows, but as a workaround, perhaps just create a static htm page in your site, go to design mode, do you editing/formatting, then copy paste the source into the real file?

one guess for message is if there is some sort of data source on the page or in the master page?

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