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I'm having a very serious drawing issue happening with a fairly large javascript file (~ 600 lines) using SmartOutline. The add-in will work fine for a good amount of time, but then out of nowhere some of the indicators in the margin will go from their normal burgundy color to one that is white with a black border. In addition, the *entire* visual studio window will become corrupt if I try to scroll, with drawing elements going on all over the place. Even if I close and reopen the file, the entire environment is still corrupt and its not possible to work with it. I actually have to quit VS and reenter.

Has anyone else encountered this drawing issue? Because of this, I can't work with SmartOutline. Is it possible to maybe look at the source to see what is causing this?

Thanks.
 

After playing around with this for a little while, I'm fairly confident it's a memory leak issue. This happens only after about 30-40 minutes of work, and will happen on doing anything after that amount of time. No specific action sets it off. I have a feeling there is a memory leak somewhere in the code, which after prolonged use causes Visual Studio to have these problems.

Any word on this? At least a confirmation that this issue exists or when you think it will be fixed? Thanks.

We were trying but couldn't successfully reproduce the issue so far.

We will keep trying though.
 

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Thank you,
Misha Zhutov
http://submain.com - .NET Developer Tools

We identified the problem and fixed it. There is new version available - http://submain.com/blog/SmartOutlineBuild105AndUpcomingUpdates.aspx

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Thanks for making this fix and also adding a way to change some options. It's very nice to see you supporting this product, even though it is free!

Really the last thing I would love to see in this product that would make it perfect is a better system of tracking the outline regions so that using Source Control on these files will be easier. For example if 2 developers are working on the same file, when they check-in, a merge action will be performed in order to merge their two files together. However, it would be difficult to update the SmartOutline associations as they are saved now because they currently rely on line numbers. Not sure how else you would be able to do this, but just an idea in case you'd like to look into it :)

Regardless, thanks for the great work!

 

Thank you for the idea, we will add it to the our TODO list.

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Thank you,
Misha Zhutov
http://submain.com - .NET Developer Tools