Some customer may have a issue that the Visual Studio* (VS) text editor is blank and could not display content of code file after upgrading Intel® Parallel Studio XE (IPS). Here's the article talking about this problem and providing proper solution.
1. Issue Description
After upgrading Intel® IPS XE for windows which is integrated into Visual Studio*, the VS text editor is blank and could not display any content of code file including .c, .cpp, .h etc. But still could view content of xml and txt file.
2. To find Reason
There would be several reason for this problem, use below way to check the main reason:
a. Open any existed code file, click and drag the mouse in the window of editor to select a range of text, type ctrl-C to copy it, then paste into Notepad; If the content can be seen, follow solution a to fix.
b. Create a new code file, type into editor, save the file and use Notepad to see if there's some change. If so, please follow the solution b.
c. If above two ways are failed to test, please follow solution c.
3. Solution
a. It means the color of text is same as background color, please change front color to separate content and background.
b. It means the VS theme would be the main reason, try to change another theme.
c. It may caused by Visual Studio cache, you could try to delete all files under this folder (for instance, if you are using VS2015):
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
Normally this kind of problems are not caused by Intel Parallel Studio XE.