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Visual Studio 2010: Unable to create a manifest resource name

I'm an experienced VBA developer but fairly new to Visual Studio. I've got a Visual Basic project.

I copied an existing form from the Solution Explorer and renamed it to "FrmList".

I realized I copied the wrong form, so I deleted that and copied and renamed a different form. At the time, I did not know about "Exclude From Project", so I just selected and hit Delete.

When I ran the app, I get the following 3 errors:

Error 1 Unable to create a manifest resource name for "FrmList.resx". Could not find file 'E:\@Projects\Hero App\Hero\Hero\FrmList.vb'. Hero

Error 2 Unable to open module file 'E:\@Projects\Hero App\Hero\Hero\FrmList.Designer.vb': The system cannot find the file specified. E:\@Projects\Hero App\Hero\Hero\FrmList.Designer.vb 1 1 Hero

Error 3 Unable to open module file 'E:\@Projects\Hero App\Hero\Hero\FrmList.vb': The system cannot find the file specified. E:\@Projects\Hero App\Hero\Hero\FrmList.vb 1 1 Hero

I've done a Ctl+F search for the form name across the entire solution and "FrmList does not show up.

I'm totally stuck. Any suggestions?

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Nasir Razzaq

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Kaprice

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Yes, I had done all that within VS.

But, opening the vbproj file and searching for and deleting all references to the form name solved the problem. WHEW!

I assume it's not normally a problem to copy and rename a form in VS?

Nasir Razzaq

No its not. But deleting the form should have updated the project file. May be doing a Save All would do that.

Kaprice

ASKER

That's probably what I did wrong. I deleted, got the error and then closed w/o saving. I thought I'd get back to the state prior to the copy/paste/delete. But, I guess not.

Thanks so much!

Kaprice

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Thanks!

Nasir Razzaq

Glad to help :-)