VS 2012 Designer Rendering Error with Ribbon

I use vs 2012 with it too but don't get that trouble. The only issue I have is screen freezes and lockups for several minutes.

Hi Rick,

I'm not seeing that issue in VS 2012 in a simple test I made.  Can you email a new simple sample project showing it to us so that we can debug it?  Please rename the .zip file extension so it doesn't get spam blocked.

Adam, your issue is actually a bug we found in VS 2012 prior to its RTM.  We reported it to the VS team, and back in August they said they fixed it for the first VS update which is due sometime in November-ish timeframe.  The bug was that if a control exposes an ImageSource property in the Properties tool window and the project has a lot of images in the project, the lockup occurs.  Since a lot of ribbon controls have the ImageSource properties in the Common Properties category, they show when getting selected in the designer and trigger the bug.  Unfortunately we're stuck with it until the first VS update is out.

Thanks for the reply at least I know there is a fix on the way and that it's fixable.

I emailed a sample project.

I am experiencing the same problem.

The group gives an error during design time.
Nothing in the ribbon is drawn.

I hope there is a solution fast!

Thanks.  Has Microsoft given any indication on when the VS update might be available?  Do you think the VS update will resolve the underlying issue or just your ability to perform debugging on it?

Hi Rick,

Based on the info we got from Microsoft sit down session, we were able to work around the issue until they issue a fix.  The workaround will be in the next maintenance release.  Thanks again for the sample.