It is simple, all you need to do is add a single registry key, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537076/visual-studio-winform-designer-shows-design-errors-as-text-rather-than-html .
It happens with both IE8 and IE9.
If you don’t feel like editing it, you can use my registry export:
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