Second VS2010 RC UI Automation Hotfix/patch released - If you needed/installed the first, you’ll want the second one too. - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Second VS2010 RC UI Automation Hotfix/patch released - If you needed/installed the first, you’ll want the second one too.

WPF & Silverlight Designer - Known Issue: Second Hot Fix Available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Crash

“A second hot fix has been made available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that solves another IntelliSense related crash.

Get the hot fix Information here.

There are now two hot fixes. Please ensure that if you are using Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that you install both hot fixes.

First Hot Fix

Second Hot Fix

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The Visual Studio Blog - Second patch now available for IntelliSense crashes in VS 2010 RC

“We recently blogged about a crashing bug in the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) on machines using UI Automation (UIA). We’ve since discovered that there are actually two bugs, both of which will only affect a certain group of users but will cause the IDE to be very unstable for those users. Both of these issues now have patches available for the RC and have already been fixed for VS 2010 RTM.

Who is affected?

Both bugs affect the same group of users. Only machines with the Visual Studio 2010 RC and an application or device actively using UI Automation 3.0 APIs are affected. This includes but may not be limited to RC users who are using touch displays, tablet PCs, screen reader software, and some 3rd-party applications.

What are the symptoms?

Both bugs cause Visual Studio to be quite unstable. Bug #1 causes frequent crashing during rapid typing in the editor while IntelliSense is popping up and/or being dismissed. Bug #2 causes somewhat less frequent crashing during tooltip invocation, most commonly when hovering over an identifier to view a QuickInfo tooltip.

How can I fix these crashes?

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