I have an issue with Visual Studio 2005 w/ TFS where, from time to time, the Solution Explorer will stop responding to interaction. Instead it does the beep, like I'm trying to click on a parent window with a modal dialog visible, but there isn't one. The only thing I've found to do so far, is to restart VS, but that's kind of a pain because our solution is rather large. And it's not even a guarantee… it might happen again when I load the solution.
I was curious if anyone else has had this problem and knows of a better solution that restarting VS until it goes away.
[Edit: 6-11-2010] I've since moved over to VS 2008 and haven't had this problem since.
Best Answer
If VS Editor lockdown is accompanied by creation of Setup.exe process that never finishes (visible in the task manager), then this is an issue with Microsoft Office 2007 components.
The solution that has worked for me - reinstalling Microsoft Office 2007. More details.