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Visual Studio 2005 - Add existing item - Form

Hi,
When I try to use a form from an old project in my new project, I can usually Right click on the project, then hit "Add" | "Existing Item" then point to my windows form in my old project and all is good.

However if the form has an embedded image for a background image, when I try and open up that form in my new project, all I get is

some HTML stuff saying something about
...
this.BackgroundImage = global::myProject.Properties.Resources.splash4;
The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer and should not be manually modified. Please remove any changes and try opening the designer again.

how do I fix this?

Thanks

rogerard

When you're adding the old form, make sure you also add it's associated files, like it's .resx and/or .designer.vb

carl-

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the associated forms designer.cs and form.resx get added automatically. Problem is the background image is under the global resource: Properties Resources.resx Resources.Designer.cs and the namespace was different, so it cant find it and thus cant open. I cant figure out how to change the namespace of that resource in the form that wont open because well, it wont open :-)

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carl-

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sorry, make that default Namespace name. (That is supplied by right clicking on the project and reading the application tab's default namespace.

carl-

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if there was an "Award Points" for answering without "Accepting as solution" I'd gladly do that, but it wasn't the solution so I cant.

carl-

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just closing out question that I figured out.