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.
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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.
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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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837234/) List of bugs that are fixed in Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1
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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
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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
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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. |
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1.
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