Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

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Nov 2nd, 2008, 05:38 PM
RuSty420

Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

Hi,

I hope this is the right place for my question, It seemed like the best choice to me.

My issue is, I just recently upgraded to VS2008 and now when I go to drag/reposition a control in the form designer, it becomes invisible and I can't see it until I drop it somewhere.

Is there something in the options or settings or something that I can change to fix this? has anyone else had this problem?

Feel free to move my topic if its not in the right forum.

-RuSty
Nov 2nd, 2008, 08:12 PM
RhinoBull

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

Does your system meet the VS 2008 System Requirements?
Nov 17th, 2008, 03:32 PM
RuSty420

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

It appears the problem still exists :mad:

I did check the system requirements above, and my system meets all of those.

Hard Drive is by far enough,
2.60 GHz
1GB RAM
etc...

The only hardware problem I can think of could be a video card issue, although my video card isn't that bad. Radeon 9600 I believe?

Has this ever happened to anyone else, or does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Nov 19th, 2008, 08:58 AM
JuggaloBrotha

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

Do you have VS 2008 SP1 and the latest updates installed?
Nov 19th, 2008, 12:16 PM
RhinoBull

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

I didn't see that behavior in beta so SP/updates shouldn't really matter [I think].
Nov 19th, 2008, 12:20 PM
Kasracer

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

Are you running XP or Vista? If it's XP then it couldn't be a video card problem. If it's Vista then that's possible but I doubt it.

I would suggest creating a new, clean project and trying it. If it works then there is an issue with your Project / Solution and I would try creating new ones and migrating your code over.

If creating a new one shows the same behavior then I'd uninstall Visual Studio 2008 and then reinstall.
Nov 19th, 2008, 03:58 PM
RuSty420

Re: Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha

Do you have VS 2008 SP1 and the latest updates installed?

I haven't installed any updates yet, could try that if nothing else works.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RhinoBull

I didn't see that behavior in beta so SP/updates shouldn't really matter [I think].

I wouldn't think so either, because the problem seems to be virtually undocumented (judging by google searches).

Quote:

Originally Posted by kasracer

Are you running XP or Vista? If it's XP then it couldn't be a video card problem. If it's Vista then that's possible but I doubt it.

I am running XP. Do you think the SP version of XP could have something to do with it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by kasracer

I would suggest creating a new, clean project and trying it. If it works then there is an issue with your Project / Solution and I would try creating new ones and migrating your code over.

If creating a new one shows the same behavior then I'd uninstall Visual Studio 2008 and then reinstall.

I will try this sometime in the near future. Although I dread the thought of the uninstall/install process of VS2008. Took me close to 2 hours to upgrade from VS2005.

-RuSty