BUG - Controls disappearing.

[Mark]

I have a project which has some user controls in. These user controls have
other user controls on them which are in the same project. For some reason,
Visual Studio has decided to remove some of the user controls from other
user controls.

This all fits in with the symptoms described in KB article 842706
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;842706
But I already have that hot-fix installed on my PC. This does not work!

Any help would be much appreciated, as this BUG in Visual Studio is a
show-stopper!

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Mark wrote:

I have a project which has some user controls in. These user controls
have other user controls on them which are in the same project. For
some reason, Visual Studio has decided to remove some of the user
controls from other user controls.

This all fits in with the symptoms described in KB article 842706
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;842706
But I already have that hot-fix installed on my PC. This does not
work!

Any help would be much appreciated, as this BUG in Visual Studio is a
show-stopper!

It can be the fix is overwritten by an older file or something? Could
you check if the file dates listed in the KB article are the same as
the dates your files have on the harddisk? Your problem indeed sounds
like hte famous dissapearing control bug.

Frans

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[Mark]

Hi Frans - thanks for the reply.

The Help->About window in VS lists the hot-fix. The file
Microsoft.VisualStudio.DLL in my Common7\IDE subdir is the correct version /
date / time. I did have an older copy of the file in SDK\v1.1\Bin, but I have
copied the new file over it which hasn't fixed the issue.

Any more suggestions would be much appreciated!

Cheers
Mark.

"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote:

It can be the fix is overwritten by an older file or something? Could
you check if the file dates listed in the KB article are the same as
the dates your files have on the harddisk? Your problem indeed sounds
like hte famous dissapearing control bug.

Frans

[Mark]

FIXED!!!

We managed to track down the problem to a missing indirect reference to
another DLL. Easily resolved, but tracking it down was a big problem due to
completely unhelpful error messages...

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Mark wrote:

Hi Frans - thanks for the reply.

The Help->About window in VS lists the hot-fix. The file
Microsoft.VisualStudio.DLL in my Common7\IDE subdir is the correct
version / date / time. I did have an older copy of the file in
SDK\v1.1\Bin, but I have copied the new file over it which hasn't
fixed the issue.

Any more suggestions would be much appreciated!
I think you then should call PSS and report that the hotfix doesn't
work for you, and the bug is still there, and a support engineer should
then contact you and work out a new fix for you.

Frans

Cheers
Mark.

"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote:

It can be the fix is overwritten by an older file or something?
Could you check if the file dates listed in the KB article are the
same as the dates your files have on the harddisk? Your problem
indeed sounds like hte famous dissapearing control bug.

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