Question

I have a form, MainForm, which was working just fine and dandy until earlier this morning. I made some code modifications to a different form and when I went to run the application, I received an error in MainForm (error is irrelevant).

I went into MainForm to see what the problem was and was horrified at what I saw… ALL MY CONTROLS WERE GONE. At first I panicked, but then had a bit of hope when I went into the MainForm.Designer.cs file and saw that all the code for the controls was still there.

So, the Designer file seems fine and yet the design view does not display any of the controls.

Has this ever happened to anyone before? Is my file corrupt? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

I do have a backup, but would prefer not to use it unless absolutely necessary as it is a day old and I do not want to redo my most recent work.

Thanks…

Answer 1

Take a look at this page, listing some reasons why this might have happened, ways to prevent it, and how to recover.