Controls on Form Not Shown in Designer

c# winforms datagrid textbox design-view
seun picture seun · Oct 2, 2012 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

I am working on a WinForms project, and I have a form where I have a DataGrid, a TextBox, and 2 button controls (btnNew and btnSearch). The click event of a btnSearch is supposed to perform a search on the DataGrid.

I deleted the event handler for the search button and have saved my work. It now appears that all other controls have been deleted and the form is back to the default state. The application works fine though when run, with some errors. I have resolved the error but the designer view is still in the default state. How do I go about reinstating my form's design view?

Answer

jrob picture jrob · Oct 2, 2012

I've run into errors like this before where simply closing all the form's files (code view + design view) re-open the code view and then Shift-F7 to reload the design view would fix it.

If that doesn't work perhaps fixing the error you mentioned in the designer view caused something to get out of whack. Try comparing the structure in the YourForm.Designer.cs file with a new form to see if an inadvertent edit was made.

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