Silver Controls (from 2011 VI) display incorrectly in 2012

Question

VI built in 2011,  When opened in 2012, the attached happens (black rectangles were "standard" silver controls.  Ideas?
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Answer 1

Some good troubleshooting steps
bradth wrote:
1) Created a VI in 2011 with a silver control.  Saved it.  Opened it in 2012.  Everything is fine.
So at least we know it's not some crazy LabVIEW-wide problem on your system.
bradth wrote:
2) With the problem VI, instead of opening it from the project, opened the VI directly, controls look fine. So this only occurs when I opened the VI from inside the project.
I'm getting some more people at NI involved to try and figure this one out -- again if you can send us some of the problematic code I'm sure that will assist our debugging.  If you don't want to post it feel free to send me a direct message and we can work out a convinient way to get it to us.
bradth wrote:
So some back ground that now seems very important.... the reason I upgraded to 2012 was because I was having an issue where when I opened a VI inside  project, there was a long delay until the VI was shown.  Could it be that somehow the project is corrupted.  If so, suggestion on how to fix it? 
A .lvproj file is, for the most part, human-readable XML.  You could open it with a text-editor and see if any of the paths look incorrect.  You should see a lot of entries that look similar to this:
<Item Name="My VI.vi" Type="VI" URL="../My VI.vi"/>
I'm also assuming that it has to be this project for the problem to surface -- you don't see this problem for any VI opened from a project.
~Simon