So I have an existing project with a custom tab control nested within panels and splitters etc.
Now I need to add something to one of the pages of this tab control through the design view.
However, when I view the form in question, the tab control is nowhere to be seen (and not in the drop down of current controls on the page).
The tab control is in the designer code and appears when you run.
Any advice for this probably noob question?
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Okay, I probably should have mentioned this but I guess I forgot – the form is an inherited form. Some of the differences of this form from the inherited form are present, but not the tab control
The tab control is probably Private in the base form. Try to set the Modifier property of the tab control to Protected or Public (from the designer of the base form).
If the control field is private it wont be available in the designer of inheriting forms, but it will still show up at runtime.
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I dont know how it happened without somebody editing the csproj file in a text editor. But this example shows how a form include should look in the csproj.
This example will cause the behavior you described. (DependentUpon-tags removed).