I taught a WPF class at Microsoft in September. During the Expression Blend demo I ran into this odd bug.
[Update November 19th, 2007] This has been fixed in the .NET 3.5 Release Version.
I thought it was my video driver or my DPI settings so last week I spent a couple fruitless hours trying to fix the problem. No luck!
This week I’m teaching another WPF class. During the Blend lab all 20+ students had the exact same problem. OK. So now I know it’s probably not my drivers. Spent some time researching and finally found a bug report at connect.microsoft.com.
Unfortunately, this is a bug in the Beta2 build of Visual Studio Orcas / .Net Framework 3.5. This has since been fixed, and you won’t observe this problem in the RTM build.
Apparently installing Visual Studio 2008 on my laptop caused the problem. Good to know.
-Walt Ritscher
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I also thought the same that there is device driver problem. But getting the same issue in all pcs, i believe that there is microsoft’s bug. Also there is another bug, when i resize the Asset library, the background doesn’t repainted :P.
Thanks for the info.
Same here. Installed VS 2008 Orcas and I got this. I even uninstalled Orcas, but still the problem persists !
I guess the problem is more a result of the .NET 3.5 framework installed. I don’t have any Visual Studio version on my PC, but do have the .NET 3.5 framework. I’m looking at the same issue in Blend 2 Sept Preview…
I just installed the .net Framework 3.5 RTM and the bug is still there!? Anybody knows if that problem will ever be fixed?
Pierre
I installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite today and it fixed the problem. I uninstalled the old version of VS and .NET 3.5 before installing the release bits.
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