visual inheritance

hello

I've a problem with my designer when I use visual inheritance.

I've executed the following steps :
1. make a base form with a MainMenu and execute it to a .dll-file
2. make a derived form
3. in the derived form, I added new MenuItems to the MainMenu.
4. build and execute this project
5. the new MenuItems are visible in the application

When I close the application and turn back to the designer, the new MenuItems are not visible !

What do i wrong ? Can anyone explain this to me ?

thanks
Kris

It is actually the designer if I remember right.

Below the form you should see your menu object that you added. Select it, and your menu should show up on the form for you to edit.

I think this might be the problem your having...

ok, but i see only my MainMenu (like i've made in the base form) but i didn't see the new menuItems (been added in the derived form) after running the project.

When i go to #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code ", i can see the code for the menuItem

Kris

VISUAL INHERITANCE SUCKS, PERIOD!
I've had many headaches working with this crap, it's so annoying! VS is so buggy when you wanna inherit something :( yeah everything shows up fine in the compiled app, but not at design time. I recommend you give up, because it causes more headaches :(

I had written about 2000 lines of code for 6 forms and then I found out that I had to rewrite them cuz this stupid inheritance wouldnt work well for designing :(