Odd quirks in VS.NET 2003

I've been seeing a couple of odd things in VS.NET 2003 and was wondering if
there was any way to fix them.

First, for a while now, when I try to pull navigate to a help page, very
often Visual Studio will thrash around for a few moments and display a "Page
Not Found" page instead of the help I requested. A second attempt to
navigate to the item then succeeds. It appears to happen randomly although
with increasing frequency lately and is not at all related to the page I'm
going to (i.e., pages that I have successfully navigated to many times will
do it then may never do it again.)

The second glitch is that, occasionally, some windows in the IDE will
"forget" the font they were using and start using what appears to be the
default system font. Usually it's the auto and local variable windows,
occasionally the stack window, sometimes the start page. If I restart Visual
Studio, everything is usually working okay, although sometimes the start
page glitches on startup. I'd guess this is some kind of resource leakage or
mismanagement problem.

Neither of these is critical but they're both annoying. The help page is
especially so as it can take easily 15-20 seconds before the IDE gives up
and displays the Page Not Found page, during which time it is essentially
hung.

Are these common problems or might it be some kind of configuration problem
on my machine? The help page problem seems to have gotten worse since the
machine upgraded to XP SP2, but that could be a coincidence. The font
problem also appears to have gotten worse lately but that could be due to my
working on larger projects lately (although the problem also appears
regularly in smaller projects and, as I mentioned, even on startup
occasionally.)

I presume if these are bugs that they're never going to be fixed and I'm
just going to have to live with them.

So, anyone know anything about either of these problems?

Thanks,
Doug Harber

"Douglas Harber" <remove-douglas_harber@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've been seeing a couple of odd things in VS.NET 2003 and was wondering
if
> there was any way to fix them.

> The second glitch is that, occasionally, some windows in the IDE will
> "forget" the font they were using and start using what appears to be the
> default system font. Usually it's the auto and local variable windows,
> occasionally the stack window, sometimes the start page. If I restart
Visual
> Studio, everything is usually working okay, although sometimes the start
> page glitches on startup. I'd guess this is some kind of resource leakage
or
> mismanagement problem.

I've noticed this very consistently when I start a session while on the
machine, then go home and continue the session via VPN.  When I return to
work the next day, the fonts have changed.  If I then shut down the session
and start a new one, the fonts return to what I expect.  My guess was this
was because the resolution on my home machine is lower (1024x786 or maybe
1152x900 or something) whereas at work it's higher (1280x1024).

--
Himanshu