At home I’ve been running VS 2010 on a Windows 7 x64 machine without any issues, however at work we recently switched over to VS 2010 running on WinXP SP3 x86 – and I gotta say, the experience is terrible.
There are severe graphical glitches. For ex,
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Intellisense doesn’t quite work. You can start typing and the intellisense dropdown window seems to be working, but the text I’m typing vanishes. I can’t see it until I hit the Escape key or refresh the window by say, alt-tabbing to another application and then back again to VS2010
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If I cut/copy/paste and then move the cursor around by scrolling or using the arrow keys, different parts of the text window don’t update themselves properly. I can see patches of a different piece of code where it shouldn’t be.
Other team members are also facing the similar issues as well. Is there some patch that I should install? I have already installed the UIA 3 patch ScottGu mentioned in his blog.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Well, I finally found the solution eventually. The trick is to turn off hardware rendering completely through the registry. Here’s the link- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970912.aspx#disablehardwareacceleration