Visual Studio 2008 Form Designer Issue

[RuSty420]

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

[RhinoBull]

Does your system meet the VS 2008 System Requirements?

[RuSty420]

It appears the problem still exists


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?

[JuggaloBrotha]

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

[RhinoBull]

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

[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 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.

[RuSty420]

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.

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).

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?

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