Why does Visual Studio crash opening ASPX with MVC RC1

Question

• Upgraded from MVC Beta to MVC RC1.
• Re-pointed all references in the project to point to the new assemblies
• Rebooted
• Everything compiles (and

Answer 1

Microsoft have now released a hotfix to resolve this issue.

See https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0

Phil Haack elaborates further here - http://haacked.com/archive/2009/03/06/hotfix-for-installing-aspnetmvc.aspx