Why does the Visual Studio editor show dots in blank spaces?

Question

I have a strange bug in the Visual Studio text editor. All my blank spaces are replaced by a "."

public class Person
{
  int age;
}

looks like this

public..class..Person..........................
{..................
..int age;...................
}.....................

I reset the settings to default. Didn't work. I also re-installed VS2008. Still didn't work. What's the error?

Answer 1

Looks like you have the view white space option enabled. Go to Edit -> Advanced -> and uncheck "View Whitespace"

Answer 2

http://www.carlovella.com/index.php/2007/08/18/tips-and-tricks-visual-studio-whitespace/

Visual Studio is configured to show whitespace.

press Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W.

Answer 3

Thanks, I have got the same problem and resolved with

press Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W.

Answer 4

~ FOR VISUAL STUDIO 6 ~

use: ctrl+shift+8 to toggle on/off.

(or manualy go to: Edit> Advance > "View Whitespaces")

goodluck!