Visual Studio 2010 Bug? - visual-studio

I'm not a bug expert hence y'all shouldn't yell at me if what I am about to say isn't what I should be saying. Here is the situation. I'm building a desktop windows form application in C# using VS 2010 Ultimatum. I added a new user control which contains a picture box that should display an image when some PropertyChangedEventHandler is fired. The application itself works as expected: No compilation error and when I run it, it does what it was meant to do. However VS is acting weird. Indeed, when I open the project in VS, it gives me this message:
I thought maybe my VS installation is corrupted. I reinstalled it, and opened the project again but the same happens. Strangely, if I comment out some code that invoke the PropertyChangedEventHandler , then VS would start and work normally. Is this supposed to be a VS bug? After all, it should at least complain that my code isn't supported but it shouldn't crash just because I wrote some bad code. Besides, if my code compiles and works as expected, can someone please tell me what's wrong?
P.S: Below is the details of the error as shown by VS. I'm looking to hear what you think.
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: devenv.exe
Problem Signature 02: 10.0.30319.1
Problem Signature 03: 4ba1fab3
Problem Signature 04:<<<<<Hiden for privacy issues>>>>> (It is just the one the namespace where the error comes from! )
Problem Signature 05: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4f288861
Problem Signature 07: 25
Problem Signature 08: 1
Problem Signature 09: System.DllNotFoundException
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
I have also posted the same thread at MSDN forum

You need to disable PropertyChangedEventHandler from firing in Design mode.
If this is C#, it should look like this:
if(!this.DesignMode)
{
PropertyChanged(this, e);
}
If not that specifically, then disable whatever features might be causing the error from triggering in DesignMode.

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