I ran into an issue where my second monitor with decent resolution, was showing a poorly rendered VS2019.
Disclaimer: If somebody would port the features I need in VS2019 to VSCode that'd be great.
Anyway, here is a pic that sums up my issue and since I had to comb through the annoyingly fixed-but-not-fixed, yet locked, tickets on MS to find clues to my answer I'm sharing here.
Here is my secondary, 27" monitor, with poor rendering. This happens to be the ONLY program that does this... VSCode looks great and is readable, Outlook, Gimp, they all look fine. Only VS2019 is giving my eyes pain.
Main/Built-in Monitor looks just fine though. I'd prefer to work with more screen space though.
In VS2019 GOTO: Tools > Options >> Environment > General, and look for "Optimize rendering..." Note: This screenshot is from after I'd found and applied the the fix.
It will be grayed-out and unselected if requirements are not met by your system, along with a message, "Requires NET 4.8 and Windows 10 minimum build 1803". I then mistakenly installed NET 4.8, and nothing changed (and the checkbox was still locked indicating requirements were not met).
More searching lead me to the 4.8 Dev Pack. Here is a link to it:
NET 4.8 Developer Pack
Finally, after another reboot, I opened up VS2019 and the rendering looks something like modern... and the checkbox automatically checked itself.
For me the accepted answer didn't change anythig, turns out it was caused by scaling on Windows (on main monitor it was set to 125%), after changing it to 100% everything looks normal
For me, I just move the VS window to the blurry monitor. Close VS. Open VS again and all looks good.
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Its probably best to mention first this issue is on a school system.
The issues is that when i start my program, the first form is fine but the second form scales very strangely so everything is small and blurry.
When I open my project I get a message saying my main display is set to 200% so I click the link to restart with 100% but the problem persists,
this issue suddenly appeared without me changing anything which leads me to believe it's an issue with the school system but I'm unsure and would be welcome to any suggestions.
I just ported one of my C# .net programs to run with mono on linux. Functionally it seems to be working, however under linux the program looks very different. It seems that many of the user controls have grown with respect to the main window, this results in a lot of truncation and scroll bars that are not present when built with visual studio. I tried this:
http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Winforms
but that didn't help. Is there a way to make my program appear the same with mono/linux as with .net/windows? I realize that I may have to redesign the form slightly.
Also, since I loaded my .net project into mono I can't see to find the form designer? How can I the form layout of my program linux side?
So the problem here is that if you make WinForms look like Windows on Linux, people complain it doesn't look native on Linux, and if you make it look native on Linux people still complain.
That said there might be bugs causing the UI to show incorrectly - you should try to create small test cases and file bugs (and in the process you'll likely find out what works on both platforms).
There is no form designer on Linux, you need to use Visual Studio for design-time support.
I have this annoying bug in MS Expression Web 4 SP2, weird GUI quirks: you can see in the picture: like parts of the display isn't being painted. I had this before, and solved it by uninstalling something, but the problem is that I don't remember what it was... (I installed Exp.Web in fresh Win7 PC, and step by step installing everything, until this problem came up.)
Anybody came across this issue maybe ?
The problem is a program called FileBox eXtender. It's excellent program I use to pin windows to have them always on top (never be hidden by other windows), because it does its job and it's free. Unfortunately, MS-Expression (Web, Blend, etc...) doesn't get along with it, so I excluded it (somewhere in FileBox-eXtender's options) and now it's o.k.
I absolutely love the Source Code Ouliner power toy that I use in VS2005 but am upgrading to 2010 and it seems they haven't yet released a new version. Is there anything similar that shows you a basic outline of the file you are currently navigating?
ReSharper, amongst many other features, has a File Structure window which does the same as Source Outliner.
For a free one, try the Solution Navigator in the Microsoft Productivity Power Tools.
Like you, I found this a totally great plug in that saved on the order of minutes per day. No more searching for functions! Luckily Source Outliner has been re-created for VS2010 and is still free. However, sbohlen updated it and it now runs on the (free) DXCore environment. I have been using it ever since I upgraded to VS2010.
You can read along as I got this set up, downloaded all the parts and got it running.
http://unhandled-exceptions.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/23/plugins-for-dxcorecoderushxpresscoderushrefactor-pro-201014-rtm-available/
The download is here:
http://code.google.com/p/dxsourceoutliner/downloads/list
You will also need the DXCore community installer from http://www.devexpress.com
But as a ReSharper user for years now, I will use the File Structure - same sort of view and already built in to R#.
Anyone know of a way to speed up the Visual Studio IDE when you have Telerik RadControls (either windows or web) and JetBrains ReSharper installed? If I disable ReSharper it runs rocking fast, but I love ReSharper a bit too much to drop it. I know it would perform better without the RadControls. Anyone know a way to speed it up?
I switched from DevExpress CodeRush/Refactor! to Resharper (not by choice) and found the IDE became almost unusable. I managed to persuade my boss to let me switch back (on my own personal licence) and now it's like walking back into the sunshine after months in a cold, damp cave.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that maybe you should consider switching to CodeRush and Refactor!
for me this is the same.
I'm Working with a Dell XPS 4gb Ram Quad Core Extreme Stripped disks...
And I also had that problem with telerik controls (mainly aspx - winform not so much).
Anyhow - I had to do a project using a different suite of web controls - and it was as bad as with telerik - or even worse...
What I found (maybe it helps a bit):
a.) Switching to design view slows down the things a lot
--so after doing this I restart VS
b.) Small Solutions (Projects) help also (like mika wrote) --if possible split your solution to several projects (some class libs instead of one big thing)
c.) Use as litte VS addins as possible --I used some nice tools - but at the moment most of them are turned of, because I made the expirience that the things are better the less addins I use.
d.) Run special "resharping sessions" -- what I mean is: turn resharper off, do you normal coding - and from time to time turn it on and "resharp" your code.
This problem (as well as some others) is well knwon (I guess) and I would say that neither resharper (although this tool seems to be somewhat special) nor telerik are gulty.
It is VS which makes the problems - and I did a lot of searches about solutions - but finally I found nothing which really helps.
Notice: I work on a pretty large project at the moment - and the use of respharper is almost impossible. I turned it off - instead I have a lot of nice snippets and macros which help me to do some of the common things.
Conclusion: if telerik + reshaper is to slow for you I guess you have to decide which helps you more :)
I use the telerik controls (ASPX, WPF and Silverlight) in almost every project I make. These tools fasten the things so much - I simply "need them to survive"
This is not much help, but at least the issue is not on your machine only...
Try to work with small solutions. In my machine this means solutions with less than 100k lines of code. Background compilation makes IDE sluggish with large solutions. VB has background compilation on by default, and even without add-ins it gets slower as the solution size grows.
I haven't been able to use ReSharper or CodeRush/Refactor! with VB & RadControls with over 100k line solutions, things just slow down too much. I'm using a Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz, 4GB machine.
See also: Visual Studio performance and add-ins
Taken from Telerik`s forums:
We are incompatible with JetBrains Resharper indeed. We are competing for the same Visual Studio resources which could potentially create a ton of trouble if you run both of the add-ins together. I doubt that anybody managed to run them together but if you know somebody that did that I'd be really interested in all the details.
So you have to disable Resharper to check out on JustCode. You could always re-enable it later, however, as long as one of them is disabled they coexist happily.
Kind regards,
Tsviatko
the Telerik team
And I am pretty sure you will be way better using only JustCode