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Show control hierarchy in the WinForms designer

One of our clients has an old WinForms application that contains forms with a lot of controls on them. Some …

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The type name {myUserControl} does not exist in the type {myNamespace.myNamespace}

I have a problem (obviously the question :) I have a project-- MyProject... hence the rest of the project uses a …

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How to manually reload the Visual Studio designer for WPF

Is there any way to force the WPF designer to reload or refresh, without rebuilding the entire project or solution? …

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WPF Designer "Could not create an instance of type"

In my UI XAML I'm essentially inheriting from a class "BaseView" that contains functionality common to several forms, however this …

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Creating a dataset.designer.vb from XSD

I have an .xsd, .vb, .xsc, and .xss file for a dataset in Visual Studio 2008 that I copied over from …

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Visual Studio designer in x64 doesn't work

In Visual Studio 2010 64bit I can't design my forms. I keep getting this warning (and error): Warning 18 The designer could …

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Standard "About" dialog in Qt

What's the standard way to implement an "About" application dialog in Qt? You know, the kind that pops up when …

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Microsoft Visual Studio and C#: How to Visually Add Events to Controls?

How would one go about adding an event handler to a control in a form in Microsoft Visual Studio (2008) with …

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How to change background color of XAML designer in vs2012?

I just try to view the result after XAML code in Designer. However, it's hard to recognize the black letters …

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XAML : How to change background color only in Design mode?

I have a control with white text foreground color and transparent background color. Later on this usercontrol will be added …

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