Thanks for the report. Th monitor is probably showing the data but the textbox is not being displayed. You can see the "footer" bar at the top of the window which is wrong.

This is an issue related to screen resize because of high dpi. I guess you are using a larger dpi than normal what is it?

thanks for your quick reply.

My DPI setting is 175% on the PC with 4k screen and 200% on a laptop. Both show the same problem. Here is an other screenshot, sometimes half of the window is white or black, the other half transparent.

For your download link I have to enter _my_ Microsoft credentials?

Another thought, the update might actually resolve the issue. It contains a fix for a missing color for the outbound serial data textbox which might be interfering with the 4k side of things.

Thanks, can you confirm if the Micro Explorer has same issue? I have tested same vs version with different dpi and can not replicate. 

EDIT: This release sets theme colors at a slightly later time and hopefully avoids wasting time
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsT00oFsGAmRncM2cKpJLaaN_lXrxg

If the Micro explorer is the same, I know this sounds like a waste of time because you have same on multiple machines but can you please try to run a vs2019 repair. It seems like vs doesn't want to load the win form user controls.

Can you also give a htlp>about diag report with your installed extensions?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the info. I need the question answered "does the visual micro platform explorer have the same problem or work okay"?

Thanks

That's useful thanks

Please try this release 1905.26

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsT00oFsGAmRncM8l2IoKbN2YJJSqQ

this version does not bring any improvement, only now the Explorer does not work anymore

Thanks, we will resolve over the next few days. The version can be uninstalled using Extensions>Extension Manager and older versions of the extension are in the release section of this forum.

Thanks for all the effort

Hi all,

We have fully tested with high res and do not have the issue. So it seems entirely related to the 1903 windows update which is being rolled out slowly. We do not have access to it yet!

Microsoft are responsible for drawing the tool windows so please use "Help>Send Feedback>Report and issue" to notify microsoft of the problem.

I have also reported the issue but because you have the issue it would really help if you could do this.

Thanks very much

ps: we will soon convert from win forms tool windows to WPF which I doubt suffers the same issue. Microsoft have been trying to get the dpi auto scale right for standard windows forms controls and I suspect they have something tidy up work to do. Either that or we will be moving to wpf sooner than expected but the develop holds back more useful things.

Showing the window before setting it up resolves the issue. Obviously no reason why windows 1903 should cause different behavior in all vs2019 versions but it is fixed now.

Requires Visual Micro 1905.29.4 or above