Patch for Visual Studio 2010 RC

There was a bug which brocken the intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 RC, earlier about a week back ScottGu has notified this bug in his blog, through different Testers and Users feedbacks.

This is issue frequently occurs in when you type some code in Visual Studio Editor and intellisense popping up, will result in a crash to Visual Studio.

Quoting to ScottGu of Microsoft from his blog

Crash Symptom

If you are encountering frequent VS 2010 crashes when you are typing in the editor while Intellisense is popping up and/or being dismissed then you are running into this issue.

Why does the crash happen?

The most common cause of the crash happening is that you are running a machine that:

• Is a Tablet PC (even if you aren’t using the pen)
• Has multi-touch screen drivers enabled
• Has an external input device like a pen or Wacom tablet
• Has a screen-reader enabled

It turns out that a late fix right before the RC shipped modified a UI input code path that unfortunately exposed this bug.

From feedbacks for different users and testers microsoft has identified and fixed this issue and patch has been made avaiable for this issue through Microsoft Connect site.

You can download the patch from the below link

Patch for Intellisense Crash in Visual Studio 2010 RC

Note: Not  every will not encounter this issue. As described by ScottGu this issue happens only when you are running a machine that:

• Is a Tablet PC (even if you aren’t using the pen)
• Has multi-touch screen drivers enabled
• Has an external input device like a pen or Wacom tablet
• Has a screen-reader enabled