Hi,

 I've VS 2008 Pro edition (RTM) with some hot fixes applied already. However, I've a strange problem with master pages and Design view. The Design view gives an error when I switch to Design view, saying it can't render the page. Also, when I create content page using the master page, the Design view for the content page doesn't show anything, it shows a blank page as if there is nothing. I've to note that everything works just fine in run-time.

 Is this a bug in VS 2008 or there is a setting that I don't know about?

Thanks a million.

I usually get this error when I have an html error in the master page.  Are you sure there are no html errors in the error list?

I have the same problem.

Best you I can do at the moment is either.

1) go back to code view and delete some empty space

2) View - Refers works

Anyone knows why this is happening?

XP Pro SP3 VS 2008 Standard

Markus

I had both StyleSheetTheme and Theme set.

Removing the StytleSheetTheme in the Content Page Header fixted this problem for me.

Regards Markus

I have not had any problems like you have described.  I typically refrain from setting a theme or stylesheet in any Content or Master Page if I can keep from doing so.  I set the theme in the web.config file which allows me to more easily manage my Themes and Stylesheets.

HTH!

Wow, that seemed obvious, but doing this has not only gotten rid of master page warnings (styles not defined) but also appears to have solved a number of other issues I was having when using the stylesheet property per page.

Thanks very much! 

Glad I could help.  Makes my day.