Controls disapear after pasting some code. WHY????

[Michael]

Hi Everyone.
I have been designing a form with about 100 or so controls and today I
pasted some code from another test project into this one and then all the
controls on the form disapeared from view. If I look at the
Region " Windows Form Designer generated code" section I can see the code
for the controls are there. Except for a few controls, like a tab control and
some labels (these controls are highlighted with errors). Why would this
happen, and how do I get the control back into view. This makes no since.
Thanks for any help.
Michael

[Michel van den Berg]

Dear Michael,

Thank you for giving the information. I must honestly say I don't know what
it can be, but I do recommend you, if you have the time that is, to
communicate with MS itself. Hopefully, this can be resolved as a bug and be
fixed.

Sorry that I couldn't help more,

Michel van den Berg

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Hi Michel,
The form itself does show in the designer just fine (but no controls
show).
I do have 2 Componentone Flaxgrids on the form. All other controls are
standard controls.
There are alot of " 'controlname' is not a member of FormName" errors, but
thats it. Did not have these before the code was pasted to the form.
I'm in the process of fixing it. I do have the tabcontrol back in a test
project. I had to add the control to the form, then I went into the
Desiner
generated code and added/fixed the code that loads the tabcontrol and
tabpages. I'm hoping this does not happen again as this can be very time
consuming. This time it lost track of about 20 or so controls. Thanks
again
for your time.
Michael

"Michel van den Berg" wrote:

Dear Michael,

I must admit it is very strange! To resolve this issue please tel me if I
correctly understand you:

- You had a form with many controls on it (question: are these only the
standard winform controls or 3rd party/inherited controls?)
- Next you pasted the code (as shown below = 2 subs).
- Now, suddenly, some controls are gone from your form (questions: Is
your
form still drawn in the designer? Are there on this moment any errors? If
yes, then please state the errors)

Hopefully we/I can help you out (otherwise, contacting MS is suggested),

Michel van den Berg
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> Hi Michel,
> I pasted the code right below the " Windows Form Designer generated
> code"
> region, and the region was closed so it should not have overwriten any
> of
> that code. Right After pasting the code, the tabcontrol disapeared from
> the
> form without any error messages showing. After more investigation, I
> found
> 4
> of the 5 tabpages in the code (in the region above). Somehow the
> tabcontrol
> and 1 tabpage was totally removed from the form somehow. The form has
> no
> code
> except for a few other control loading (conbos & flexgrid) functions.
> Here
> is
> the code I pasted into the form.
> Private Sub SetHeaders()
> Dim i%
> ' initialize control
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Norma l.WordWrap = True
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count = 6
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows.Fixed = 2
> flxFamilyHistor y1.AllowMerging = AllowMergingEnu m.FixedOnly
> ' create row headers
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows(0).Allo wMerging = True
> ' four cells, will merge
> Dim rng As CellRange = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 1, 0,
> 2)
> rng.Data = "If Living"
> ' four cells, will merge
> rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 3, 0, 4)
> rng.Data = "If Deceased"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 1) = "Age"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 2) = "Health"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 3) = "Age of Death"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 4) = "Cause of Death"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 5) = "Who"
> ' create column header
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(0).Allo wMerging = True
> ' two cells, will merge
> rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 0, 1, 0)
> rng.Data = "Person"
> ' align and autozise the cells
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Fixed .TextAlign =
> TextAlignEnum.C enterCenter
> flxFamilyHistor y1.AutoSizeCols (1, flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count -
> 2,
> 10)
> flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(5).Widt h = 150
> End Sub
>
> Private Sub SetFixedColumn( )
> flxFamilyHistor y1(2, 0) = "Father"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(3, 0) = "Mother"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(4, 0) = "Brothers"
> flxFamilyHistor y1(9, 0) = "Sisters"
> End Sub
> The form will not load right now because the VB generated code still
> has
> references to controls that where removed/lost saying that the control
> is
> not
> a member of the form. Yet it still has the code like:
> Me.Label4 = New System.Windows. Forms.Label
> further down in the code:
> Me.TabPage1.Con trols.Add(Me.La bel4)
> further down in the code:
> Me.Label4.Locat ion = New System.Drawing. Point(16, 339)
> Me.Label4.Name = "Label4"
> Me.Label4.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(176, 16)
> Me.Label4.TabIn dex = 5
> Me.Label4.Text = "Have you ever had a transfusion?"
> Does any of this make since to anyone. Thanks for the reply and
> suggestions.
> Michael
>
>