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c#winformsvisual-studio-2012devexpress
poudigne
poudigne

Reputation: 1766

VS 2012 Designer could not be shown

I have a UserControl class Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelationUC that inherit from RelationUC that inherit from RelationBase that inherit from System.Window.Forms.UserControl

When I try to open my Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelationUC in the Designer I have this error :

The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. The designer inspected the following classes in the file: Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelationUC --- The base class 'AstusFMS.Content.RelationUC' could not be loaded. Ensure the assembly has been referenced and that all projects have been built.

But when I open RelationUC and RelationBase both are showing up correctly.

My program still compiling but why this is bothering me ? Because I have a form EmployeeForm that use a lot of UserControl (like Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelationUC) and when I try to edit something in this Form, every UserControl included in the form that inherit from UserControleBase are deleted (left: TFS Server, right: local) :

Diff for EmployeeForm.Designer.cs (left: TFS Server, right: local)

This diff is showing that the designer deleted all my ucEmployee* object. Just because I change a ComboBox's name (combobox has no relation with one of the UC).

I have notice that when I create a new UserControl file the default code showing up has an error : Default UserControl with error

But the Using System.Windows.Forms; is right there. If I change the UserControl for System.Windows.Forms.UserControl it works.

I may not be clear enough so if you have question, i'll be on to answer and test all day.

Tested on 3 different computer with VS2010, VS2012 Update 1, VS2012 Update 2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3455

Answers (2)

Nigel
Nigel

Reputation: 11

VS2013 has a a bug with the form designer if you load in from VS2010 a C++ CLR Winforms app. "The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. "

If you change and save the source file then the form designer starts to work again. But it fails again on loading in the project again. Looks like a race between loading the source file and the form designer parsing the code.

Upvotes: 1

wizmagister
wizmagister

Reputation: 364

When using generics inside Form or Usercontrol, it's recommended that you put an empty class that define the Generic type. Your current Form then derives from that class.

I put that class inside the same file. It has to be after the actual Form code like this: 

  public partial class Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelationUC
    : Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelation_GenericUC
  { ... }

  public class Employee_EmployeeKeyOneRelation_GenericUC
    : RelationUC<MyObject>
  { }

Upvotes: 4

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