I'm building this application and everything works fine under the debugger (F5) however when I go to run it outside the debugger (CTL-F5) I am now getting the "The path is not of a legal form". This is a Windows Forms application with nothing but controls from the standard VS toolbox (2 textboxes, 2 group box, 3 labels, 3 buttons, 1 link label). Initially I had thought the designer somehow got hosed when VS ran into a problem and had to restart. Since I was unable to proceed after that I created a new project and added the above to it testing the ability to run as I progressed the adding off the logic back. When it presented the error I undid the coding I was adding and now I get the error on every control even with the logic removed. There are no paths being pointed to by the code.
Has anyone seen such behavior? Any ideas how I may step backwards for identifying the offending element so I don't have to start all over and just recode the logic line by line and running after each line. If I need to add some more content from the project, I have no problems doing so but since it is affect all controls now I am not sure where to go from here.