While in Design mode, my VWD 2008 properties window will not update when I select a control. The properties window stays blank. Even a simple textbox or label. I have to switch to split view, then click to either scroll up or down so the source code for the control is highlighted, and then the properties windows will show correctly.

 This happens with any page within my project. I also tried creating a new project to see if the same happens and it does.

My version of VWD is 9.0.30729.1 SP

Running on Windows Vista Home Premium SP1

Project is old VS2003 .NET 1.1 project updated to .NET 3.5. All warnings and errors resolved. Project runs correctly.

 I've worked years on VS2003 and never encountered anything like this. First VWD 2008 AJAX project.

 This has been an issue with the Visual Web Designer for ages, it happens in VS 2005 and VS 2008 SP1 as well. The property window does actually update it just takes about 10 - 15 seconds to do it.

I suggest you report it as a bug to Microsoft, I'd love it if they fixed that. You can report bugs in Visual Studio by going to http://connect.microsoft.com

 I tried clicking on a control in Design mode and counting to 60. Still no change in the properties window.

I go to Split view  and as before, click to scroll up or down on the Code view portion of my screen and poof!! Property window updates.

This time I returned to Design mode and the Property window continued to update as it should. If I break off to do anything else however, it goes back to being non-functional - until I go back to Split View and do my little "click dance" as noted above.

Still looking. I think I may attempt to uninstall VWD and re-install. I'll write here to update if I do that.

 Well, I uninstalled / reinstalled VWD2008 and it did NOT fix the problem. Just as a side note, I first attempted to REPAIR the installation but that did not work either. So I went through the uninstall / reinstalled from newly downloaded installers - with no results.

 I also installed the recently released Vista Service Pack 2 - and that did not fix the issue with VWD either.

Still stuck but still looking...

 Well, While I haven't resolved the issue completely, I have minimized it. Since this project was formerly a .NET 1.1 website which was converted to .NET 3.5 using VWD 2008, I noticed a lot of HTML code which was not updated and newly created Styles. I remove any style reference I was not using and changed all code to currently format. sample - <br> to <br />, <img></img> to <img /> and so on.

For some reason, the sync between Deisgn Mode and View Code is a little better.

I still have to go to Split View to initial the properties window, but once I do that, VWD appears to work as it should.

Hope this helps someone. While It's not an answer, I will mark as it an answer to close out this thread.

 You have two options:

1-You can restart Visual Studio and everything should be ok

2-By deleting contents on C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1(version number) fixes this issue.

Talley Ouro,

Developer Raleigh,NC

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