Microsoft KB Archive/319945

= Visual Studio .NET IDE hangs or disappears when you view C/C++ project =

Article ID: 319945

Article Last Modified on 9/27/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Academic Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q319945



SYMPTOMS
The Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE) stops responding (hangs) or disappears when you rest the pointer over code in a C/C++ project.



CAUSE
When you rest the pointer over code, the Quick Info feature tries to parse the code to display tooltips about the construct that is under the pointer. The parsing code causes this problem.



Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

837234 List of bugs that are fixed in Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1

Hotfix information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time   Version      Size       File name -  08-Apr-2003  22:04  13.0.9688.0  1,900,544  Feacp.dll 08-Apr-2003 22:02   7.0.9688.0  1,736,704  Vcpkg.dll



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, disable the Quick Info feature for C/C++ projects. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 2) In the left pane, expand the Text Editor and the C/C++ nodes.
 * 3) Click Formatting, and then click to clear the Enable automatic Quick Info ToolTips check box.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section. This problem was first corrected in Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1.

Additional query words: hover mouse over pause tool tips

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbvs2002sp1sweep kbvs2002sp1fix kbhotfixserver KB319945

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