Sometimes my dropdowns/datepickers will stop functioning?

Question

Q: Where should I check to track this down?

Issue:

Opening a view model in my application sometimes makes dropdowns/datepickers nonfunctional.

ie. dropdown won't drop and the datepicker calendar won't come up

I suspect a binding issue but don't see one.

Dropdowns have normal things like strings, numbers.

One drop has a list of mini views.

Datepickers are bound to nullable dates set in the constructor of the viewmodel.

Note: These same things work in other viewmodels/views.

I can paste code, I'm just not sure what code is relevant here.

Answer 1

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653989/wpf-menu-items-and-combo-boxes-dont-render-in-windows-7-64-bit/2655056#2655056.

Sometimes simply rebooting will "fix" the problem (temporarily), but the link above will take you to a similar discussion (including my comments), which in turn have a link to an MSDN forums discussion and an XP hotfix for this problem.