Hi
We are all well used to the fact that the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio has been buggy for years (since Visual Studio 2005, if I remember right). Just to make us feel at home, the Windows Forms designer in 2013 is equally awful.
Currently, I have a form which is listing 19 errors preventing it from being actually designed (Could not find type MyAppName.CustomComboBox, the variable 'DayComboBox' is either undeclared or never assigned, et. etc.).
I was able to run this form fine last night, and designer was fine, but today (with no changes made) - Nope - no go.
I've tried the usual several times of close the designer and reopen, but still no go.
I've closed Visual Studio 2013 and reopened the project and offending file, still no go.
I've gone into designer.vb, and as far as it is concerned none of the errors exist.
I can execute the form fine, everything still works.
But I can't do any work on the interface now...
I've had to recreate forms from scratch before now with similar issues - but Microsoft don't actually seem to get the fact that I have a job - other than dealing with stupid Visual Studio bugs - to get on with. Thankfully very little of my development is now in Windows forms, as Microsoft clearly treat is as the poor relation when it comes to pre-release testing, going by the number of bugs in it (just don't get me started on the dataset designer!).
Has anyone any bright ideas I've missed, before I go absolutely spare and start dancing round the office singing very rude songs about Microsoft?
Many thanks.
Niki
Niki