hmmmm.... no one seems to have answers for you, and afraid I don't yet, but....
just installed SSDT-BI for VS2013 and upgrading SSIS packages from SSIS2008 to SSIS2014...
annotations are apparently now invisible!
they're still there and you can copy and paste them out of the package onto the clipboard, but whatever font, colour etc you select, you can't read those annotations!
Anyone out there worked out what's going on?
(using VS2013 update 4 + latest version of SSDT-BI),
thanks