My Pretty Listing is going haywire...

[Johnny Jörgensen]

I've got a serious problem. I've got Visual Studio 2005 installed, and of
course I'm using the Pretty Listing formatting function. When I start up VS,
everything is fine, but after a while (which can be one minute or one hour)
the Pretty Listing starts acting weird. For instance, if I start writing
"for...", it changes it to f(o) r" or something like that.

When that starts happening, I can't code at all and have to restart VS.
Sometimes that helps - some times I have to do it more than once.

If I turn off Pretty Listing in the VS Options, I can code normally, but
then of course I don't benefit from all the nice fringe benefits of using
Pretty Listing. So I don't want to keep it turned off.

What the heck can I do - is this a bug? It started after I installed the
latest SP (1) for VS 2005. I've never had the problem before. I cannot say
for sure that it has to do with the SP, but chances are that it does...

Anybody else have the same experience?

Cheers,
Johnny J.

[markosoft]

I have the same problem and cannot figure out what is going on. Often, after I compile, the pretty listing just freaks out and does exactly what you described.

D(im)
F(o)r

Every keypress results in an hourglass as if a search for something is constantly going on.

You are not alone! If anyone knows how to fix this please reply!

[markosoft]

I just found a work around for this problem that tentatively seems to work. After I compile, the file that I am working in begins to act up with the crazy formatting.

If I click the [Design] view of the form and then click back to the form's code view this seems to fix the problem (at least until the next compile). The crazy formatting stops.

[Johnny Jörgensen]

OK - I did some investigating and came up with the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/916209
As far as I understand from what I've read in different forum postings, the
problem exists in different "flavours":

1) Parantheses are added when autosave kicks in and makes the code window
lose focus. This is relatively harmless because it doesn't happen a lot
(depending on your autosave settings of course)

2) The problem I had: You're sitting there typing code, and suddenly it
starts adding parantheses that can't be deleted.

3) The problem Markosoft had (I don't know for sure if it's the same as #2
or if it has to do with the compiling).
As you see from the above KB article, there's a Hotfix available from
Microsoft. Unfortunately it's not so easy getting hold of. Microsoft seems
reluctant to release it and wants complete control over who gets it.

I had to actually call the MS support here in Sweden where I live. They put
me in contact with a Support team in Finland. They couldn't send me the fix,
but put in a request to the MS developers that I should have the Hotfix.
After a short while, I got a mail from a guy from the Microsoft Visual
Studio technical support team with a link to a password protected file
containing the Hotfix. He even tried calling me personally to verify that I
really needed the fix and that it actually solved the problem.

However, I installed it and so far it seems to have solved the problem. I
cannot say for sure, though, because it only happened when I had been coding
for a long while. But I haven't had the problem since the fix was installed,
anyway.

Cheers,
Johnny J.


<markosoftskrev i meddelandet
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>I have the same problem and cannot figure out what is going on. Often,
after I compile, the pretty listing just freaks out and does exactly what
you described.

D(im)
F(o)r

Every keypress results in an hourglass as if a search for something is
constantly going on.

You are not alone! If anyone knows how to fix this please reply!