Visual Studio 2010 Context Menus…WTF?

So I know it’s been a while since my last post, but I just couldn’t resist this one.  Here at work, we’re upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 since it’s finally been released, and overall I’m very pleased with the latest and greatest from Microsoft.  During the testing phases I installed the Beta 2 and RC versions of VS2010, and aside from horrible performance in the beta (which was later fixed), I’ve always been relatively happy.

Today, however, I came across perhaps one of the most ridiculous design flaws I’ve ever seen.  Anyone that uses Visual Studio will tell you that the right-click context menus in the solution explorer are critical.  As developers we’re constantly right-clicking stuff in solution explorer and accessing the “Properties” command or perhaps some source control commands.  Much to my surprise, Microsoft decided to implement scrolling in these context menus for reasons unknown to me.  Check this out:

Now before you reply telling me about a lack of screen real estate, let me ensure you that this isn’t the problem.  It has some sort of weird dependency on the item you click being positioned somewhere near the center of the solution explorer.  For example: if I simply expand a few more folders and force the selected item closer to the bottom of the solution explorer, the context menu renders fine:

This issue was reported in February.  Remember when Microsoft delayed the release of VS2010 to fix some speed and usability issues?  Why wasn’t this fixed?  GRRRRR!  Please vote on the Microsoft Connect issue to get this fixed as soon as possible.  Asking us to wait until SP1 is asinine.