BUG: Inherited forms show as code.

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David Coleman - 30 Jan 2005 03:49 GMT

Hi all,

I have a solution with a number of projects.
The forms project has some 600 forms. The IDE shows all my forms as code.
If I wish to view a form in designer I must - Load the form as code, Delete
and then re-type the last letter of the inherited from base form (which
immediately changes the type icon to form), then load the form in the
designer.

This is obviously a bug and a google search tells me it is a known well
documented bug. Of course no mention on MSDN.

Is there a fix planned for this annoyance or do we just have to live with it
and buy VS-2005?

Cheers,

David.

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David Coleman - 07 Feb 2005 01:19 GMT

Well for anyone with the same problem I've found a workaround.
All my forms are based on AppFramework.AppBaseForm whose reference is in a
project within the solution.
So in the project that shows forms as code, I do a replace all in files of
AppFramework.AppBaseForm with AppFramework.AppBaseForm
This causes VS to re-evaluate each changed file and then it shows them as
forms and can be loaded in designer.

> Hi all,
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> David.

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