Question

How does visual studio link files to their corresponding designer.cs files? I have a strange situation that’s occurred with both the DataSet designer and also the L2S DBML designer where it’s ignoring the DataSet.Designer.cs and has created and used a DataSet.Designer1.cs instead. How can I switch it back?

Answer 1

Thanks to Zendar’s suggestion, this is what I did:

1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Use TortoiseSVN to rename the DataContext1.designer.cs file to DataContext.designer.cs, so the rename is picked up by source control.
3. Opened MyProject.csproj in Textpad.
4. Performed search and replace for DataContext1.designer with DataContext.designer (found 2 instances).
5. Save and close.

Re-opening and building the solution in Visual Studio confirmed this worked. Thanks Zendar!