why intellisense window background is transparent in visual studio 2010?

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hi,

since i installed visual studio 2010, i don't know why intellisense window background is transparent in visual studio 2010?

see screenshot here:
http://i66.tinypic.com/166hpiv.jpg

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate, I PC configuration is: 512MB RAM and 2.66GHz processor and 250GB hard drive,

tell me how to fix this problem?

thanks in advance

Posted 4-May-11 7:33am

salmanfalcon

Updated 25-Dec-15 3:07am

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Albert Holguin 4-May-11 15:14pm

Why would you load Win7 on a computer with 512MB? ...with that small amount of RAM, stick to XP or maybe even something more efficient (Linux?)

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2011-05-04T07:42:00

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Well, I'm going to guess that the memory is the problem here. What's happening here is that the animation is not able to complete (the animation is the transition from transparent to opaque). The editor was rewritten in WPF, so it requires some welly to run (i.e. more than 512MB RAM).

Try switching off Aero to enable the processor to allocate GPU resources more efficiently.

Posted 4-May-11 7:42am

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salmanfalcon 4-May-11 13:45pm

may be you are write, i will install install visual studio in my friend PC

Pete O'Hanlon 4-May-11 13:53pm

Just check that he's got a higher specced machine.

salmanfalcon 4-May-11 14:02pm

I have no money for upgrading PC, so is there any way to convert Visual Studio 2010 projects into Visual studio 2008 projects?

Pete O'Hanlon 4-May-11 14:11pm

It depends on whether or not you are using .NET 4 features or not. If you are, then you can't convert the code as is - you'll have to rewrite portions. If you aren't then you simply need to change the .sln file. Edit it with Notepad and replace the top lines (that will look like this with slightly different version numbers) with:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00
# Visual Studio 2008

That should normally do it to allow you to open VS2010 projects in VS2008.

Pete O'Hanlon 4-May-11 13:56pm

I've just had a look at the Visual Studio recommended system requirements. They are: GB (32 bit) or 2 GB (64 bit) RAM (add 512 MB if running in a virtual machine) BTW - what video card do you have? Visual Studio requires a DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display.

NuttingCDEF 4-May-11 16:34pm

Good answer - my 5.

My base spec for a boring desktop with WinXP is now 1GB if I don't want it thrashing the page file - 2GB for comfort. And I doubt I'd put Win7 on much less than 4GB. Development environments always seem to need more (even without a VM). 512MB is just too low.

I've just upgraded a few PCs with extra 1GB DDR PC3200 memory at under GBP20 / USD30 each - so long as you know what you are looking for there are some very good deals on eBay! The free Crucial.com memory scanner is also a great help for checking what your PC can take.

Anyone worried about specs might also think about multi-core processors . . .

Pete O'Hanlon 4-May-11 17:31pm

Indeed. The laptop I use for development is a quad-core with 8GB RAM, and that sometimes lags.