Visual Studio 2010 - lost screen form

[randym]

Hope this is the right forum for this... Was working on a project using Visual Studio 2010 - sometime during development, but far before completion, I must have closed my screen form and now I cannot seem to figure out how to re-open it. Perhaps someone could help?

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's an odd problem. What do you mean by a "screen form"? All forms are displayed on the screen, so is this just a form, or is it different in some way? If it is just a form, then normally you can see it in the Solution Explorer, which is usually on the right side of the Visual Studio form, and double click the form.

[randym]

In this case, I mean the main screen form. I only have the one form with a couple of buttons on it. When I double click the form name in solution explorer, it takes me into code. Closing and re-opening the project have no effect.

[Shaggy Hiker]

One of the icons at the top of the Solution Explorer should have a ToolTip that says View Designer. You should have a View Code, View Designer, and View Class Diagram, in that order in one group of icons that are separated from the other icons by a vertical separator. Frankly, I suspect that when you click this, either nothing will happen, or the icon itself is missing. The reason I suspect that is because you've done what should have worked, so the problem may well be deeper than that. Double clicking on the form in Solution Explorer should have opened the designer, yet you say it didn't.

Beyond that, I have no good suggestion, though I do have a bad one. Before going into that, I'm going to step aside and hopefully somebody will have a much better solution.