I am experiencing odd color behaviors too. I am using R#4.1 in VS 2008 SP1.  I am using light colored text on a dark background so I have some custom colors set. I have "Color Identifiers" checked.

This is the issue I am having:

Sometimes some text in the text editor (C#) displays in strange colors like dark blue and purple. I cycle through all the colors under "Fonts and Colors" in VS.

I look at all the previews for all the color settings looking for an entry that has a purple text. I find none!

Then I go looking for an entry that has a blue text like the one I have. I find a single entry but it belongs to XAML ... something. I don't use XAML anywhere.

I decide it change the font color from that blue just for kicks. Low and behold the purple and text colors are gone from my editor and original colors are restored. It's as if the color change did a major color reset.

I find this behavior odd. I think this is R# related and not VS because it happens only when "Color Indetifiers" is checked. Well at least as far as my little testing has proved to be the case.

I opened a C# web application today and saw the same behavior. Initially an

undeclared variable was red as expected. I opened another code-behind file

to check another usage (no changes were made) and when I came back to the

original code-behind file the undeclared variable had a black background.

This is the first time I've seen this behavior, but I normally work on Web

Services and Windows Services applications instead of Web applications and

our Web Service applications are basically empty projects since we use

Spring.NET to redirect the URLs to service classes in standard .DLL

projects.

"David Williams" <daviddwilliams@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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Using the current nightly build 4.1.934.3 in VS2005, I just had a very

strange coloration issue.  I had two instances of VS open and one of the

instances (used in a readonly capacity) lost the coloration schema.  I

manually when into the Resharper -> Settings -> Color Identifiers and

unchecked, rechecked and the coloration schema reinitailized.

>

There is nothing much special about the two instances.  The instance that

continued to work correctly is running about 179MB vs the one the lost the

schema was at 54.8 MB (according the Resharper memory indicator in the

status bars).  Both instances had been restarted about 2 - 3 hours ago,

and had somewhere in the order of ~10 class files open at the time.

>

This is on a Duo Core 2.0GHZ, 4GB ram system running XP 32bit (yes, I know

that XP only reconizes 3GB).  Total memory usage on the system is ~1.7GB.

>

David

 

From these comments, I would conclude the colorization in R# 4.1 is broken.

Hello brantheman,

Could you please contact support@jetbrains.com and give more details about

your environment. It is not something that should happen, and it actually

looks very strange, because we don't repaint editor during scorlling, we

just tell VS which text should be in which color, it is painted by VS. Thanks

in advance.

Sincerely,

Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc

http://www.jetbrains.com

"Develop with pleasure!"

IR> I've never seen the coloring work properly in 4.1. Just scrolling up

IR> and down my page causes it to draw types in black whereas they

IR> normally draw in cyan.

IR>

Hello David,

Do you have SP installed for VS2005? There was known issue in VS2005, when

it couldn't hold more than certain number of highlighting items. That was

fixed by MS in SP1, though we still receive issues like that from time to

time.

Sincerely,

Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc

http://www.jetbrains.com

"Develop with pleasure!"

DW> Using the current nightly build 4.1.934.3 in VS2005, I just had a

DW> very strange coloration issue.  I had two instances of VS open and

DW> one of the instances (used in a readonly capacity) lost the

DW> coloration schema.  I manually when into the Resharper -> Settings

DW> -> Color Identifiers and unchecked, rechecked and the coloration

DW> schema reinitailized.

DW>

DW> There is nothing much special about the two instances.  The instance

DW> that continued to work correctly is running about 179MB vs the one

DW> the lost the schema was at 54.8 MB (according the Resharper memory

DW> indicator in the status bars).  Both instances had been restarted

DW> about 2 - 3 hours ago, and had somewhere in the order of ~10 class

DW> files open at the time.

DW>

DW> This is on a Duo Core 2.0GHZ, 4GB ram system running XP 32bit (yes,

DW> I know that XP only reconizes 3GB).  Total memory usage on the

DW> system is ~1.7GB.

DW>

DW> David

DW>