I've got this weird behavior in Visual Studio 2005 when working with SSIS packages. Visual Studio appears to be having problems painting/repainting the tasks.
When I open a package, I see the label of the task items and the line connecting tasks, but I don't see the box outline or the icon of the task type. When I click on the task item, the outline and icon appear. If I minimize the screen and then maximize it, they disappear again.
The problems exists if I bounce my machine and load Visual Studio by itself. I don't have the problem with any other projects.
I've seen it couple times, and in both cases the problem disappeared after I installed the latest video drivers.
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I'm trying to access the project properties but the window appears blank. I've tried web solutions View>Properties Window, f4, right click on project folder>properties, Also tried resetting import/export settings, searching for specific tab
everything results in a blank window.. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I ran into this same problem with VS 2022 v17.4.0 Preview 1.0 in a C# Windows forms app. Closing and opening the solution/VS didn't have any effect.
After I closed all the open tabs and reopened a file, the Properties pane was populating correctly.
Does your toolbox items also appear 'greyed out'?
Try Going to your Build Menu and select
Clean Solution
(and perhaps Rebuild afterward - or not)
This happens constantly on my install. I simply minimize the entire VS window, then restore it. Poof! My properties appear. Trivial, but painful.
1 Make sure that your build program is not running (use task manager to end that process if needed) and make sure that you can rebuild your project without errors.
2 Restart Visual Studio as an Administrator.
Good Luck For You All ^_^
I have just encountered this error and it was simply solved by closing the visual studio and reopening it again. it is just gone.
I'm experiencing a visual glitch in SSMS. Whenever I hide the results pane, the editor is covered in dark, as is the application was not repainted correctly. It would look like a graphic card/driver issue but it's only happening with ssms (all the time) and sometimes with visual studio. It happens even immediately after rebooting, with no other programs running, so it's not a low RAM issue.
Already tried updating ssms, and then a complete uninstall.
Also tried upgrading visual studio from 2015 to 2017.
The glitch also appears if I move downwards the horizontal bar that separates the editor from the results pane.
The glitch disappears if I move upwards the horizontal bar that separates the editor from the Results pane, or if I restore/maximize the ssms window, or if I move the vertical bar that separates the editor from the Object Explorer.
Haven't found anyone with this problem, googling around. Any idea on how to solve this? It's driving me nuts.
I'm including a screenshot of the glitch:
screenshot of SSMS after pressing Ctrl+R to hide the Results pane
My System: Windows 7, Visual Studio 2012, VB.Net
My Problem:
Often, but not always, when I double-click on a line in my Call Stack window, it takes me to (and highlights) the wrong line of source code in my Source Code window.
Notes:
My solution is fairly large: Dozens of projects.
No one else on my team has ever gotten my problem. They all get the same source from the same source control. Their systems are same as mine: W7, VS2012, VB.Net.
What I've tried already (but hasn't worked):
Restarted Visual Studio / Rebooted computer.
Clean Solution (from Build menu).
Rebuild Solution (from Build menu).
Deleted all my source code (entire solution folder, including .sln, .suo, .vbproj files, etc) from my local computer and re-gotten all
the source code from source control.
Used inappropriate language.
I think that my problem is exactly the same as this one
What is the solution?
Currently I am using Visual Basic 2008 (.NET Framework 2.0) to create a program. However, when I add or select controls such as panels, group boxes, etc. I get error messages. For example, when I try to add a panel control I get the following message,
After clicking OK button, the panel control is added but the following happens to the panel control,
Yet I can still add other controls inside it. When I save and re-open the project, it shows the normal panel control. But when I select the panel control it does as shown in the second image again.
I tried this in Visual Basic 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. Same thing. I have full administrator access to the computer.
What is the reason for this and how to fix it?
I re-installed Windows and then Visual Studio 2008. The error did not occur after that. But when I updated the computer via Windows Update, the error came back.
Try creating a new project, then copy and paste code from the old project. You may or may not have to recreate the forms in the designer. Also, make sure you have System, System.Core, System.Drawing, and System.Windows.Forms included as references for the project.
The error was due to a Windows Update. Because it does not show any errors on non-updated Windows 7. The error only appears after updating Windows 7
It was difficult to find which update was the reason for the issue. The solution was to install Windows 7 and Visual Studio and never update it. This way, it seems to fix the issue and it does not show the errors anymore.
Reference: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/76790023-4d01-43a5-b901-65ad93a5183d/visual-studio-visual-basic-protected-memory-error?forum=visualstudiogeneral&prof=required
I have the following situation. I installed Visual Studio Update 3 last night. Now I have a problem that when I open my projects (Universal Apps) which i have done while i had update 2, my designer won't load and it throws an exception:
Does anyone knows how to solve this? I guess this is not a bug because probably everything was tested by Microsoft, and this is not RC update. Im about to delete this update if i don't figure out the solution. I'm guessing that it might have to do with xaml if anything changed?
I figured out from the connect bulletin that there are two folders in your Windows profile that need to have their contents cleared out in order for the Visual Studio designer to work with Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.
The two folders are:
For Blend: AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Blend\ShadowCache
For Visual Studio 2013: AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Designer\ShadowCache
Don't delete these folders, just delete the content of those folders and you will be back to working happily with the XAML designer again.
Clearing the ShadowCache did not resolve this for me. Found a clue from an MSDN article and checked the event viewer for exceptions, look for XDesProc.exe.
The problem was an out of date driver for my graphics card.
Once that was updated all started working again