Visual Studio 2022 Not Responding after adding ContextMenu

Question

I'm using VS 2022 v17.14.7 developing a WinForms app using .Net 8.0 and C#.

When I add a ContextMenu to any form and try to add a menu item under it, Visual Studio stops responding and has to be killed via the Task Manager.

This also happens when using a Toolbar or TabControl although these will work for some time and then suddenly freeze VS. Once this happens, they have to be manually removed from the designer file before viewing the designer or VS will freeze.