I’ve been trying to use nothing but Visual Studio 2010 for my at-home development uses. For the most part it works decently until it decides to be not be so cordial. I’ve seen things from group boxes all of a sudden only half the text on any contained controls displays. Restarting Visual Studio does nothing to redisplay the text even though it’s clearly in the Text property window. The only solution to that seems to be to add or change one character on any of the contained controls and auto-magically the rest of the text in all the controls displays properly again within the group box. That one has happened several times already.

There has also been the fancy quirks of leaving Visual Studio 2010 running and using it through a remote desktop connection. That one causes some strange behavior from getting stuck in a frozen state, not releasing locks to referenced assemblies, which that assembly part sucks when said assemblies solution is open in another Visual Studio instance you want to compile. That may have just been something weird between Visual Studio 2010 as the main windows form project and Visual Studio 2005 as the assembly project. The worst being when switching between code pages where the code-behind looses the cursor. Just stops showing up, don’t know where you are, but it can still move and select text using the mouse or keyboard. Just the funny thing is the text doesn’t show itself being selected either, but you can definitely ctrl-c it and it copies find to the clipboard.

Who knows, but the oddities are adding up quickly. I just had Visual Studio 2010 crash for the third time for unknown reasons as a result of adding an About Form to the project and modifying the About Form’s form wide text. Open the project, close all code behind, open the About Form, right-click to view code, and then it prompts to restart itself. I think that means go to bed and shut down for the night.