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danpetitt
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Posted - Sep 18 2008 :  3:44:22 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am using Visual Studio 2008 on Vista Ultimate x64 and VPNing through Remote Desktop and on every screen press (also without doing anything it will redraw and flicker multiple times) the whole window is redrawn making it virtually unusable. If I turn off Visual Assist then it doesnt refresh anymore and it works fine.

Is this a known issue?

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VA_X.dll file version 10.4.1649.0 built 2008.09.09
Licensed to:
VA X: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (x-user license) Support ends 2008.10.26
DevEnv.exe version 9.0.21022.8
msenv.dll version 9.0.21022.8
Font: Consolas 11(Pixels)
Comctl32.dll version 6.10.6001.18000
Windows Vista 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1
4 processors

Platform: Win32
Stable Includes:
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\include;
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\atlmfc\\include;
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.0A\\include;
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.0A\\include;
d:\\SDK\\Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1\\Include;
d:\\SDK\\Codejock Software\\MFC\\Xtreme ToolkitPro v10.4.2\\Source;
d:\\projects\\components;

Other Includes:

Stable Source Directories:
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\atlmfc\\src\\mfc;
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\atlmfc\\src\\mfcm;
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\atlmfc\\src\\atl;
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\crt\\src;


Edited by - danpetitt on Sep 18 2008 3:46:31 PM

accord
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
3287 Posts

Posted - Sep 19 2008 :  3:45:42 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes, unfortunately this is a known problem:

case=281

Edited by - accord on Sep 19 2008 4:15:32 PM
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18724 Posts

Posted - Sep 22 2008 :  10:37:18 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
For now can you try turning off the following options:

VA Options -> Advanced -> Fonts and Colors -> Enable Enhanced Syntax Coloring
VA Options -> Advanced -> Underlines -> Underline spelling errors in comments and strings using
VA Options -> Advanced -> Underlines -> Underline mistyped symbols using
VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Highlight matching {} and () using
VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Highlight mismatching {} and () using

I know this removes a lot of VA functionality but should allow remove nearly all of this screen redraw problem, and you still get all of the other features of VA.

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danpetitt
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28 Posts

Posted - Sep 22 2008 :  2:55:11 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Its a pain to do this and then enable them all again each day I am back in the office ... its quicker and easier to just "Disable VA" and "Enable VA" depending on my location ... but doing so really removes the point in using it.

Guess I will have to put up with it and wait for a fix if ever one comes about ... is it mostly down to Visual Studio rather than VA which is why the problem remains unresolved?
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feline
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United Kingdom
18724 Posts

Posted - Sep 23 2008 :  09:38:25 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
One quick and easy way to change several VA options at once is to use:

VA Options -> Performance -> Export Settings

to generate two registry files, one with these settings turned on and one with these settings turned off. You can then just double click the settings file to import it into the registry. So long as you do this while the IDE is closed this will just work.

The problem with Remote Desktop is that when software runs over a Remote Desktop connection you are supposed to use a different method for painting the screen. Since our screen painting is complex, and has to be done behind the IDE's back, this is not an easy fix.

Are you connected via a fast connection or a slow connection?

I am currently connected from winXP to a Vista machine via Remote Desktop and the screen flickering is fairly minor, certainly not a problem. This is over a local network, and in the Remote Desktop options -> Experience tab I have set the speed to LAN and turned on all of the check boxes.

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danpetitt
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Posted - Sep 24 2008 :  4:28:08 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am connected via a normal ADSL connection, not super fast but not really slow either. General operation is quick enough, just the whole screen will redraw quite slowly at every key press or even when not doing anything.

I understand your predicament with regard to screen drawing and its a shame that you need to do something different to what should be handled automatically by Remote Desktop.

Thanks for the suggestion, hopefully it should work okay on Vista without too much nagging/refusals.
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support
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Posted - Jan 27 2009 :  9:32:24 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
case=281 is improved in build 1715

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danpetitt
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28 Posts

Posted - Jan 28 2009 :  4:06:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This seems much much better now, wonderful news ... well done
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sean
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USA
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Posted - Jan 28 2009 :  10:03:08 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Great to hear!
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mickyd
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Australia
5 Posts

Posted - Apr 18 2012 :  10:08:52 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My whole VS2010 IDE window flickers as soon as a parameter tip appears only to vanish again (the tooltip) due to VS losing focus!

And I'm not even using RDP

Cheers,

MickyD

Edited by - mickyd on Apr 18 2012 10:09:28 PM
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18724 Posts

Posted - Apr 19 2012 :  3:26:45 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Can you please go to:

VA Options -> System Info -> Copy Info

and paste the details (from the clipboard) into your reply. This will give us the basic information about your setup.

Does this happen when you trigger the patermeter info tooltip manually, via CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE?

Which programming language are you working in?
Do you see this problem in a new, default project?

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mickyd
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Australia
5 Posts

Posted - Apr 27 2012 :  8:46:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi feline,

Thanks for your reply.

I fixed the flicker, seems that perhaps Resharper and VX were fighting. Setting Resharper to c# only files fixed the issue :)

VX is brilliant!

+1 purchase

Cheers,

MickyD
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feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 30 2012 :  8:46:46 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Which programming language were you seeing this flicker in? I have just checked the Resharper web page, and it is not listing C++, so I am assuming this was in another file type.

Which OS and version of Resharper are you using?

We try to make sure that VA and Resharper work well together, since quite a few of our users work with Reshaper, so if this is causing flicker problems it would be good to know about it.

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mickyd
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Australia
5 Posts

Posted - May 04 2012 :  7:29:25 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
MS c++. c# was ok.

Windows 7 x64 SP1

Cheers,

MickyD
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18724 Posts

Posted - May 11 2012 :  7:52:43 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Apologies for the slow reply.

I have installed the current version of ReSharper, 6.1.1 on a windows 7 64bit test machine, and tried both VA 1901 and VA 1903 along side ReSharper, in VS2010, testing in a .cpp file.

I am using the default ReSharper settings, and I have tried turning:

VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Enable automatic Quick Info ToolTips

on and off, and I am not seeing any sign of any flicker or repaint problems here. Do you know if you changed any particular VA or ReSharper settings that might be related to this?

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