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[dogfish227]

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??

[dogfish227]

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

[dogfish227]

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

[dogfish227]

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

[RobDog888]

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

[dogfish227]

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.

[dogfish227]

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]

[dogfish227]

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.

[RobDog888]

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

[dogfish227]

it crashes no matter what control

[dogfish227]

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

[RobDog888]

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

[dogfish227]

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.

[RobDog888]

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.

[RobDog888]

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.

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)

[dogfish227]

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

[RobDog888]

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.