Visual Studio 2010 IDE Refresh problem

Question

Visual Studio 2010 IDE has a problem refreshing or redrawing its UI elements.  It usually ends up leaving large blocks of green/black vertical lines all over the screen.  If I resize the window or scroll up/down, the obscuring blocks usually go away.  But sometimes, they remain, which makes coding and debugging very difficult.

Sometimes, the text inside the edit windows is completely wrong as well.  I spent a while staring at some strange code, and then finally noticed after doing a page up followed by page down, that the code was from a phantom refresh and not what was really present.

I'm running windows XP SP3 (our company forbids us from upgrading to anything newer).  I have a feeling the IDE isn't behaving nicely while running under the older OS that doesn't have the new-and-improved graphics features.

I haven't seen the problem occur on my home PC, running windows 7.  I have seen the problem occur on several other PCs (also XP) running here at work.

No other apps that I use on this PC (including MS office and VS 2006), exhibit the same behavior. It occurs only in Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 1

Hi Lindberg,

 

Thanks for your post.

I'm not familiar with the performance thing,

but as far as I know, the UI of VS2010 is based on WPF but older versions

are winform UIs.

I think that can be the reason, they behave different in each environment.

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Answer 2

I'm having the same problem using Windows XP SP3, but I can't find a real solution for it.

I post an comment at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/519664/vs-window-does-not-redraw-if-idle-for-a-while

 

Visual Studio 2010 IDE has a problem refreshing or redrawing its UI elements.  It usually ends up leaving large blocks of green/black vertical lines all over the screen.  If I resize the window or scroll up/down, the obscuring blocks usually go away.  But sometimes, they remain, which makes coding and debugging very difficult.

Sometimes, the text inside the edit windows is completely wrong as well.  I spent a while staring at some strange code, and then finally noticed after doing a page up followed by page down, that the code was from a phantom refresh and not what was really present.

I'm running windows XP SP3 (our company forbids us from upgrading to anything newer).  I have a feeling the IDE isn't behaving nicely while running under the older OS that doesn't have the new-and-improved graphics features.

I haven't seen the problem occur on my home PC, running windows 7.  I have seen the problem occur on several other PCs (also XP) running here at work.

No other apps that I use on this PC (including MS office and VS 2006), exhibit the same behavior. It occurs only in Visual Studio 2010.

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[]s, Pierre Assis Noronha

Answer 3

for me this works ...

disable hardware acceleration for Visual Studio on this machine, in Tools/Options/Environment/General - uncheck the 1st and 3rd checkbox on that page.
Then try to see if you still have the problem.

Answer 4

for me this works ...

disable hardware acceleration for Visual Studio on this machine, in Tools/Options/Environment/General - uncheck the 1st and 3rd checkbox on that page.
Then try to see if you still have the problem.

Worked for me, too! Thanks.

- Rob

Answer 5

Hi,

It worked for me.  I was having the issue when using my laptop on battery and the UI regressed from Aero to basic.  Interesting, how, having a simplier UI to render, actually caused an issue!

Kris.

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KWenzel

Answer 6

Thanks, it worked for me too...

Answer 7

it works..

thank you BaHein...