Re: Can't display form in design mode

"Linda Liu [MSFT]"
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I recommend you to have a try opening the form after compiling the
project.
If it still doesn't work, you may close the solution in VS2005 and reopen
it again.

Thanks for your suggestion. I have already tried closing and reopening
VS2005, but the form still wouldn't open. I've also tried closing VS2005,
deleting the \bin and \obj directories in all the projects in my solution,
and then rebuilding (a suggestion I've seen elsewhere on the 'net), but that
didn't help either.

I've also tried commenting out the majority of the code in my form,
including the call to InitalizeComponent, leaving only empty event handlers
for events that were declared at design time. I still get the same symptom,
although intermittently, I also see a pop-up message box that says
"Exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Design.ExceptionCollection" before
(or sometimes, instead of) VS2005 displays the error I posted previously.

How can I find out what the error is that is preventing VS2005 from
displaying my form, or how can I modify my form so that I can continue to
work with it?

I have not yet manually modified any of the code in the form's .Designer.cs
file. Is there something in that file that I should attempt to modify in
order to restore my form to a working condition? If so, what should I do?

Please help. I don't really understand how it is that my code can be
error-free, yet the IDE Designer can still consider that it contains errors.
How can I reconcile this discrepancy?


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