Error after deleting Form

[djsouljah]

Hi Team,

Today I was going though my project's solution explorer and noticed there was a form that I wasn't using at all and no references were made to this form so I deleted the form by right clicking on the form.vb icon in the solution explorer and clicking on delete..

Shortly after that I launched my project and noticed 100's of errors popping up, most of which that said "Ressources is not a member of 'My' "..

This Form did not contain any of the files associated with the errors, in fact the errors are refering to forms still present in my solution explorer...

Can you please tell me how I may fix this issue?

[MegaloDon]

I would start by using something like FileLocator Lite and searching "Containing text:" for the deleted form name (eg. "form2" etc.). Search the entire project folder. You should be able to find references to it that way.

[TysonLPrice]

Just for grins I would run a clean up and a rebuild.

[djsouljah]

Hi thanks for the reply..I tried that and it didnt work Same errors are present! HELP!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

How did you do the cleanup? Did you delete the bin folder, or just run Clean Project (which never seems to do much to me).

I'm not surprised that it didn't solve the problem, I just want to clarify that you really did a thorough cleanup.

These errors can sometimes be misleading. I was dealing with one the other day that had to do with a deletion, but manifested in a different form failing to display in the designer. I never made a change that actually solved the problem the designer was complaining about, but I commented out something else and the designer sorted itself out. For that reason, I would second the suggestion that MegaoDon made: There's a fair chance that you are seeing some perverse manifestation of a reference to the deleted form.

In the future, you might try ExcludeFromProject rather than Delete, and fix any errors that result. With Delete, the form is totally gone. With Exclude From Project, the form is still there, and can be added back in very easily, so you have time to get everything sorted, and can kill it off later on once you have everything working fine without it.

[Gruff]

djsouljah,

What version of visual studio are you running?

I had issues with VS 2010 similar to what you describe. If I deleted some component sometimes saving, shutting down VS, restarting VS, and reloading the project would repair the problem.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Interesting. The issue I was dealing with yesterday was also in VS2010. I didn't think it was related to the version, but maybe it is.

[Gruff]

Where it usually bit me was when I was developing an inherited control with a new instance of the control on a test form in the same project. Renaming the control in the solution browser could sometimes booger the whole project so bad I would have to start over from scratch.

I haven't seen this issue in 2013 yet.

[djsouljah]

Hi Guys,

I am on VB Studio 2010. I have tried deleting the BIN file ...when doing so it gives me an error "Error deleting Folder 'bin'. Level of system call incorrect"....Also tried to rebuild the solution by right clicking on solution and clicking rebuild and it works in the background and then errors are still present....I also tried to change the application type to Console or Class and then back to Windows Forms Applications that didnt work..... I noticed one thing and not really sure if this may be causing the issue but my resources.resx file doesnt contain anything in its subfolder, actually it doesnt have a subfolder, usually i dont play with that file but i saw in some other peoples printscreens there was a vb file in its subfolder could that be causing the issue, if so how do i fix it...Also when going into project propreties and take a look at ressources tab i have an error "there is already another resource with the name 'nhl' ...See screenshots below...Been working for months on this APP, i really can't start over at this point HELP

[Gruff]

One thing to note. I wouldn't delete files or folders from a project with windows explorer while VS is running.

2010 creates a backup of your projects. Have you looked at that to see if it contains your last good copy?

C:\Users\<Your Profile>\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Backup Files

Other than that do you have any system or network backups of your project you can restore?

[djsouljah]

Hi Gruff, I did not delete from windows explorer, I deleted from solution explorer actually... I check the folder you suggested its empty

[djsouljah]

Ok so what I did is added a form with the same name I deleted, took the resx file from the backup i had from earlier versions from October...and imported it in the form and then that somehow gave me access to the resources.resx code where I removed a line that referenced to a picture that had the same name of another picture i had in my resources and that removed some of the errror and I gained back control of the resources tab and see everything again....

Now I have one more error I was unable to clear :

"The customer tool VbMyResourcesResXFileCodeGenerator failed. ResX input is not valid. Cannot find valid resheader tags for the resX reader and writer type names"

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<SettingsFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2004/01/settings" CurrentProfile="(Default)" UseMySettingsClassName="true">
  <Profiles>
    <Profile Name="(Default)" />
  </Profiles>
  <Settings />
</SettingsFile>

[Gruff]

Not really.

Best I can think of is to restore the entire backup from October to a new folder.

Get rid of the undesirable form (safely) and copy all your good forms, classes, and modules from the broken project into the restored project.

Fire up VB.NET, Load the restored project, and reconnect what needs to be connected.

No promises.