title: User control always crashes Visual Studio
body: <p>I'm trying to open a user control in one of our projects.  It was created, I believe, in VS 2003, and the project has been converted to VS2008.  I can view the code fine, but when I try to load the designer view, VS stops responding and I have to close it with the task manager.  I have tried leaving it running for several minutes, but it does not do anything.  I ran "devenv /log" but didn't see anything unusual in the log.  I can't find a specific error message anywhere.  Any idea what the problem might be?  Is there a lightweight editing mode I might be able to use or something?</p>
  
  <p>The reason I need to have a look at the visual representation of this control is to decide where to insert some new components.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried googling it and searching SO, but either I don't know what to search or there is nothing out there about this.  Any help is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>(The strangest thing is that the user control seems to load fine in another project which references, but VS crashes as soon as I even so much as click on it in that project.)</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>The user control is a wrapper of a 3rd party HTML editor...so not exactly something which accesses a database.</p>
  
  <p>I just tried putting the control on a new project and it crashed as soon as I dragged it onto the form.</p>