RE: inherited forms - random debugging errors

I have this problem as well. Is there any solution to this? It is starting
to drive me nuts.

I make a simple change to the code and all of a sudden, 5 or 6 completly
different forms have "lost" variables or methods. Most of these forms
inherit from a base form. Changing the form class on each page from Public
to Private, and back to public ( exactly back to the way it was ) fixes the
problem.

Things I have noticed:
Seems to happen more when I have a designer open, or when a dataset is open.
But, has happend when I have only had code open.
I close all designers before building.
A restart of VS, or the machine usually helps for a while, but it will
always show up.
Did not get really bad until other modules were added and project got large.
Once it does start, and I dont restart, I can almost count on VS quitting
with no warning. Just disappears.



"AMercer" wrote:

> I have the same problem with a fairly large vb app with about 30 classes.
> Classes are independant of each other except one case of a base class and
> four derived classes. I F5 (start) only after trivial edits. I rebuild
> after extensive edits or any change that affects classes in a major way, eg
> changing a method from private to public. I think MS wants an example before
> acknowledging a problem, but examples of this problem require a sufficient
> degree of project complexity. In my opinion, there is a bug in build with
> projects of sufficient complexity.
>
> "Eickhel" wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have an application that has many inherited forms from a base form.
> > Everything works well but every now and then when I hit "Start" VS .Net 2003
> > gives me errors from the inherited forms.... I need to Rebuild the Solution
> > and then everything is ok... does anyone knows why does this happen?
> >
> > Thanks!
.

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