It is very frustrating for even the smallest exception, Visual Studio 2008 crashes immediately. Some people are started to get used to live with that, however, there is a very very simple solution for it.
Probably you are using Visual Studio 2008 in another language like German, French etc. Just switch it to English from Visual Studio settings. No reinstallation needed.
Then - magic. Your Visual Studio will break operation when an exception thrown and you will be able to read the exception cause.
I am really unhappy with Silverlight guys in Microsoft to let these simple errors exist in Silverlight development. This is not a beta version, this is Silverlight 2's official release.
