Question

I’ve currently got custom control that has somehow lost its parent and is now not parented to anything but it’s still in the list of controls in the form designer. The delete button also doesn’t work and is thus disabled. This happens every now and again and its a pain to go through the designer code and remove manually, plus there are other developers that this will annoy and may confuse them.

I’m therefore trying to add a Verb within the controls ComponentDesigner to delete itself from the form. But I realised that because its not ‘childed’ to anything, it therefore cant be removed as a child. How would I therefore go about deleting a control from the form designer via code?

Answer 1

I solved the issue by finding the loose controls within the Document Outline tab. This way is super easy and is graphical.