Visual Studio 2010 workflow designer Shows Build Tasks Without Borders

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I'm having a display problem with the TFS build workflow visualizer in Visual Studio 2010.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Run devenv /safemode
2) Open DefaultTemplate.xaml from source control. (Mine has not been modified since TFS created the project)

Expected behavior: All tasks displayed with border
Actual behavior: Only the currently selected task has borders displayed

I've never used the build workflow editor on this machine so I have no idea if it ever worked. ReSharper 6.0 was installed recently, but I uninstalled it and it had no effect.

Has anybody else seen behavior like this? Or know how to fix it?

Environment:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0.30319 SP1Rel

Installed Version: Ultimate
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What are your systems hardware specs? Is this a VM? – kroonwijk
Well as I experienced this happens only if you have the Windows Aero theme enabled. That one has the background color for the borders as white. I also like Aero. :-( I also tried to play around with the Workflow Color Editor, but unsuccessful. – user1672255

2 Answers

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It's more involved than this. After much googling and trying, I managed to get the flow to render correctly by:

  1. setting the default theme in the "Visual Studio Color Theme Editor" Theme menu.
  2. disabling the extension and restarting VS
  3. -at this point the flow is displayed as it should -
  4. enabling the extension again
  5. setting my theme again (and thus getting rid of the "punch in my eye" default color scheme.

The problems now is that as soon as I restart VS again, I'm back to square one, i.e. no borders.

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Package for managing Visual Studio color schemes

I had the same problem. It went away when I disabled the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension.