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hey im getting this error every once in a while when i try to change the anchor of a contorl. Any one know any thing about this??

seems to do it only sometimes. even on the same control. will work once but then not the next time.

hmm looks like it will let me do it once but then the next time. it dies

any one any ideas? its still doing this even after i restart. Or mabey someone knows how i can report this to MS?

Are you changing the anchor through the properties window or through code?

properties at design time. It seems to be crashing with more than just the anchor though also seems any property i change that is not just text or a number will make it crash.

this is the line it shows the error on when i click show debug i dont no if this might somehow help?

7C943345 mov eax,dword ptr [ebp-4]

interesting i can press debug and then when the debbuger comes up i just press play and it doesnt crash. Well atleast now i can work.

Can you determine if it crashes when changing a particular controls properties or is it all controls props?

it crashes no matter what control

also i belive it has something to do with a user contorl i have i was doing some testing and any project that uses that user control will act like this

Ah, so it has a common link between projects? If you create a New project without your usercontrol, it doesnt crash?

yes so i guess that means theres some kind of problem in this user control??
ill post it. see if it has the same effect with you.

Just checking things out for a few minutes, but if I get side tracked testing this for you tomorrow, dont hesitate to PM me to remind me. ;)

First thing I noticed is that you have absolutly no Error handling at all. You should add some Try Catch blocks.

Second a different grouping of the Anchor properties.

VB Code:

CType(((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom) Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
'
'Try a different grouping
CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)

that code is in the Windows Form Designer generated code. Are you saying that it generated bad code, and thats whats causing the errors?

I'm not too sure since I wasnt able to add the ctl to a test project. :(
But error handling will help to determine what area is the source
of the offending code.