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c#winformswindows-forms-designerinitializecomponent
user6906550
user6906550

Reputation:

The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer

The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer and should not be manually modified. Please remove any changes and try opening the designer again.

I am a newbie at this so please bear with me. I copied and pasted some forms and immediately got this error. So I logged into the person's computer who wrote the program, repeated the steps and that did not help.

I changed everything in the new form that said FormA to FormB if you will. I'm not trying to be vague, but the program is so big I don't even know what to paste in here.

I keep getting issues with Components and or Initialize Components and I don't know what it means. I'm also too new to understand what the other StackOverflow solutions are. I tried deleting the Designer.cs and that did not help. It is not a web form. It's a C# program with a SQL back end.

Here is some of the code. I'm not sure if that helps. I have 8000 errors. I think it's related to this. 

public FormA()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
    }

I'm getting errors here too. It's red underlining bool and compoents.Dispose

    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (disposing && (components != null))
        {
            components.Dispose();
        }
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }

Also I'm getting many errors regarding the FormA. (It's not called that, I'm just using it for clarity.) Ambiguity between FormA.textA and FormA.textA (Yes it's the same, but it compiles just fine with the original version.)

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Edit: Adding the beginning code for Amy

   public partial class FormA : Form
    {

        string dbname = @"SERVER = np:PROD; DATABASE = TEMP; Integrated security = true; Enlist = false";
        string user = Environment.UserName.ToString();
        System.Windows.Forms.Timer tmr = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();
        System.Windows.Forms.Timer IdleTimer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();

        public FormA()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
        }

        private void FormA_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Application.Idle += new EventHandler(Application_Idle);
            this.KeyPreview = true;
            btnSched.Text = "Edit " + DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy") + " Schedule";
            calendarRefresh();
            tmr.Interval = 1000;//ticks every 1 second
            tmr.Tick += new EventHandler(tmr_Tick);
            tmr.Start();
            loadCurrentlyDisplayed();
            createUser();
            refreshUsers();
            loadNotes();
        }

After this it's just function after function doing various things. I can add more, but I don't know how much room I have.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3294

Answers (1)

Koby Duck
Koby Duck

Reputation: 1138

The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer and should not be manually modified. Please remove any changes and try opening the designer again.

Generated code shouldn't be modified, because manual changes will be discarded. This should really be a warning, but it does highlight the issue before you get too deep.

There are a few solutions:

  • Delete the modified designer files(*.g.cs) and rebuild. This should cause VS to regenerate them. This usually works, but does fail from time to time. Designer files won't be visible from the solution explorer unless manually added, you'll have to delete them from the file browser. By default they're in the obj folder of the project.
  • If you haven't saved, closed, and re-opened the solution, you should be able to undo all changes made to the designer file.
  • Copy all but the designer code to a scratchpad, delete the form, recreate it, and inject the copied code where appropriate.

I'm getting errors here too. It's red underlining bool and components.Dispose

This suggests Dispose isn't a method of whatever class components is. Until you post its type we can't be of much help with this.

Also I'm getting many errors regarding the FormA. (It's not called that, I'm just using it for clarity.) Ambiguity between FormA.textA and FormA.textA (Yes it's the same, but it compiles just fine with the original version.)

This is most likely related to the designer file issue. Try the solutions at the beginning of this answer. If that doesn't fix it, the form code(i.e. FormA.cs) must have duplicate fields. Ensure that the designer file hasn't been modified and no duplicate field names exist in the form code.

Upvotes: 0

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