Graphics glitches in Visual Studio 2010

Question

I'm having graphics issues with Visual Studio 2010. When I open a solution only part of the UI renders. Entire sections like the solution explorer will be missing.

This only happens after I've had Visual Studio running for a while and have opened/closed a variety of solutions.

It "feels" like some sort of a GDI handle leak because the problem goes away once I reboot.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit. I've updated my graphics drivers, installed the latest patches, etc. I can't find any postings about this on stackoverflow or doing a variety of Google searches.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The Visual Studio 2010 UI has been rewritten from the ground up in WPF. Myself and a couple of other devs in our team are experiencing the same issues (various hardware and software but my software is the same as yours). In our case closing and reopening VS solves it with no reboot required.

It's a cracking product but roll on SP1.