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Visual Studio 2005 Form Objects Disappeared

I have a program that I coded in Visual Studio 2005 and it has worked fine for a while. The other day I made a minor change and added a title for the main form. About that time I noticed that all the form objects have disappeared. I can still see the items in the drop down for properties, but I cannot select any of the items in the form. When I run the application the form items do not display either.

I have seen a few forums about this and they all say upgrade to SP1, I already had that before this problem showed up. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks,
TJ

p_davis

look in the initialize components function to see if they are still being added.-- one time i made a change to add a on click event. ctrl-z'd to get rid of it and it trashed all of my controls.

gouber

ASKER

Thanks for the comment. I had forgot to mention that I looked there as well. As far as I can tell the items are added. For example, I have a panel as one of the objects. Below is the code that is in the initialize function. Please let me know if that does not seem like everything.

Thanks,
TJ

this.pnlMain = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();
this.pnlMain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.pnlMain.Name = "pnlMain";
this.pnlMain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(10, 10);
this.pnlMain.TabIndex = 0;

p_davis

there should be a controls.add(your control name);
somewhere

gouber

ASKER

Yes, there is a line that has this.toolStripContainer1.ContentPanel.Controls.Add(this.pnlMain). Sorry, I missed that before. Currently I am comparing this to a similar form line by line. Please let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks for your help so far.

Thanks,
TJ

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gouber

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It is a default form that I added controls to.

-TJ

gouber

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p_davis,

Thanks for all your help, I am just going to give up and redo the form. When I compared the items line by line they looked the same. I will still award you the points for your help, I am giving you a B because the answer did not come directly from you, but you still put lots of thought into this.

Thanks,
TJ

p_davis

thanks and good luck