Strange character in "Waiting for a background operation to complete" dialog title

Strange character in "Waiting for a background operation to complete" dialog title by doyle_am

Closed

as Fixed

Type:	Bug
ID:	759433
Opened:	8/24/2012 9:36:13 AM
Access Restriction:	Public

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Every now and again Visual Studio 2012 shows a dialog indicating the a background task is in progress.

The exact text of this dialog is:

"Waiting for a background operation to complete. This dialog will close when the operation completes."

In the title of this dialog, it reads "Microsoft Visual Studio" - however at the end there is a strange non-ASCII character, represented on screen by a square.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and Visual Studio 2012 Premium. All languages are set to English (United Kingdom).

Details (expand)

Visual Studio 2012

Do something that causes that dialog to appear (I have no idea what causes it!)

English

Windows 7 SP1

English (UK)

The strange character appears

There shouldn't be a strange character :)

File Name	Submitted By	Submitted On	File Size
VS2012 bug.png	doyle_am	8/24/2012	8 KB
VS2012 bug.png	doyle_am	8/24/2012	8 KB

Posted by Microsoft on 11/26/2012 at 6:02 PM

Hi folks,

We had previously communicated that a fix for this issue would be available in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. However, we made a mistake that required us to postpone a fix for this until Update 2. We apologize for this and will update this thread when the fix is publicly available for download. In the interim, we recommend installing the Update 1 release from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=272486 as it contains several additional functional and performance fixes for VS 2012.

Thanks again for reporting this issue, and our apologies for the delay in getting this resolved.

Posted by Microsoft on 10/18/2012 at 5:03 PM

Thanks again for reporting this issue. We have a fix for this issue scheduled to release with our first Visual Studio update later this fall. More details about this update can be found here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-update-this-fall.aspx

If you still encounter this issue after installing the update, please reactivate this issue to let us know, and we can investigate further.

Posted by Junior Mayhe on 9/23/2012 at 8:33 AM

This is not urgent but I can see this strange character too. Could you address this issue to UI responsible?

Posted by Microsoft on 8/24/2012 at 9:50 AM

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently reviewing the issue you have submitted. If this issue is urgent, please contact support directly(http://support.microsoft.com)