Following up on a note about Visual Studio 2010 crashing at my previous post, this is the XAML that crashes VS2010 when opened up in a Silverlight project: <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication1.MainPage"   xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"   ...

Copying here my answer at: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/11a42336-8d87-4656-91a3-275413d3cc19 What seems to work for me is the following (copying from the source code of http://ClipFlair.codeplex.com [currently under development]) note I’m using Build Action = "Page" and Custom ...