Public property has multiple definitions with identical signatures

Hi guys. I have a problem.

Visual Basic gave me these errors:

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Error        1        'Private Shared Sub AutoSaveSettings(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        32        24        Game OS 0.2
Error        2        'Public Shared ReadOnly Property Default As MySettings' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        40        41        Game OS 0.2
Error        3        'Public Property shortcut1 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        60        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        4        'Public Property shortcut2 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        72        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        5        'Public Property shortcut3 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        84        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        6        'Public Property shortcut4 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        96        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        7        'Public Property shortcut5 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        108        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        8        'Public Property shortcut6 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        120        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        9        'Public Property shortcut7 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        132        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        10        'Public Property shortcut8 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        144        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        11        'Public Property shortcut9 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        156        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        12        'Public Property shortcut10 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        168        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        13        'Public Property shortcut11 As System.Drawing.Point' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb        180        25        Game OS 0.2
Error        14        Attribute 'CompilerGeneratedAttribute' cannot be applied multiple times.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        17        6        Game OS 0.2
Error        15        Attribute 'GeneratedCodeAttribute' cannot be applied multiple times.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        18        6        Game OS 0.2
Error        16        Attribute 'EditorBrowsableAttribute' cannot be applied multiple times.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        19        6        Game OS 0.2
Error        17        'defaultInstance' is already declared as 'Private Shared defaultInstance As MySettings' in this class.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        23        24        Game OS 0.2
Error        18        'addedHandler' is already declared as 'Private Shared addedHandler As Boolean' in this class.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        27        20        Game OS 0.2
Error        19        'addedHandlerLockObject' is already declared as 'Private Shared addedHandlerLockObject As Object' in this class.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        29        20        Game OS 0.2
Error        20        'Settings' is ambiguous between declarations in Modules 'Game_OS_0._2.My.MySettingsProperty' and 'Game_OS_0._2.My.MySettingsProperty'.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        34        13        Game OS 0.2
Error        21        module 'MySettingsProperty' and module 'MySettingsProperty', declared in 'C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb', conflict in namespace 'My'.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        196        19        Game OS 0.2

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I use System.Drawing.Point to save locations of my "icons" (picturebox, it can moved!)...
I have 11 settings:

shortcut1
shortcut2
shortcut3
shortcut4
shortcut5
shortcut6
shortcut7
shortcut8
shortcut9
shortcut10
shortcut11

One for each icon....
I work 2 days at the program and 10 minutes ago gave me this error...
What should I do ?
Please help me....

It looks like your Settings designer code file has been duplicated somehow. Notice the error messages refer to two file paths:

C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings.Designer.vb
C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb

I'm guessing that if you delete that Settings1 file then you should be alright. It would be interesting to know whether this was something you did by accident or it was due to a glitch in VS.

Maybe it was a copy and paste, which does change the name of the file, but not the class name in the file.

I moved out Settings1.designer.vb of My Project folder and then vb gave me this error:

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Error        1        Unable to open module file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb': The system cannot find the file specified.        C:\Documents and Settings\Catalin\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Game OS 0.2\Game OS 0.2\My Project\Settings1.Designer.vb        1        1        Game OS 0.2

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Did you move it out in windows explorer, thus not telling VS that the file should not exist? You should change files through the editor, or it will believe that it should still exist.

How I can change files through the editor ?

If i move out Settings and Settings1 , visual basic don't gave me any error....
It would be better to delete definitive Settings1 and Settings and create new settings ?

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Originally Posted by Stunt3r

How I can change files through the editor ?

If i move out Settings and Settings1 , visual basic don't gave me any error....
It would be better to delete definitive Settings1 and Settings and create new settings ?

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It works.... Would be a problem if i do that ?

You manage the project in the Solution Explorer. That's where you add items and that's where you remove items. Sometimes you may need to click the Show All Files button to be able to see the file of interest.