Visual Studio Not Responding (beeping) when editing ASPX

I’m just going to share the solution, in case anyone else encounters this after installing Office 2007 or 2010

Yesterday I came across a very strange bug which was causing Visual Studio to lock up after a few (30?) seconds every time I opened an ASPX file for editing. I even uninstalled a few VS addons I thought might have caused it… but that didn’t help (I’m reinstalling Resharper as I type this).

After much frustration and a couple of Bing searches … it turned out to be a problem with MS Office 2007 components. This was a bit of a surprise, since I do not have Office 2007 installed. However, I do have Office Communicator and Live Meeting which are Office 2007 products — and I had just installed Office 2010, which may have actually caused the problem.

Rinat Abdullin wrote about the problem earlier and there’s a thread on StackOverflow which is at least related.

Basically: you get “beeping” when you try to click in the text editor for aspx, or on the Solution Explorer … (sometimes, but not always, Visual Studio will actually be marked as “Not Responding” by Windows) – and, when this happens, you look in your TaskManager and see this Setup.exe process.

This one — in your %CommonProgramFiles% or %CommonProgramFiles(x86)%:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\SETUP.EXE

Shutting down Visual Studio and then running that installer “as administrator” manually has solved the problem for me. I just hit “Repair” and that was that. Others (including Rinat) have said they had to reinstall Office — I suspect that probably depends on whether or not you had Office 2007 installed in the first place.

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