Newbie - Probably a stupid question...

[cmoloney]

I just got Visual Studio 2005. I was making a project in VB, saved it, took a long holiday weekend, and then decided to get back to work on it. I load the project and up comes the code, but I can't (for the life of me) figue out how to open the form in design view (to add buttons, text boxes, etc.)

Someone please help before I put my foot through the wall. Thanks.

[mendhak]

Double click on Form1.cs.

[cmoloney]

I don't see a .cs file. I see two .vb files and a .resx file.

[sparrow1]

I just got Visual Studio 2005. I was making a project in VB, saved it, took a long holiday weekend, and then decided to get back to work on it. I load the project and up comes the code, but I can't (for the life of me) figue out how to open the form in design view (to add buttons, text boxes, etc.)

Someone please help before I put my foot through the wall. Thanks.

Hi,

Let's try,

Open your Visual Basic 2005 program, then open your project, then open your project and then open the solution object of your project.

Normaly that's how I open a project.

Hope it helps,

sparrow1

[jmcilhinney]

You double click on the Form1.vb file or select the Form1.vb file and then click the View Designer button at the top of the Solution Explorer.

[GaryMazzone]

Try double clicking the Form1.vb in the sloution exporer. (Or whaterver you named the form.)

[cmoloney]

Hmmm... Still nothing.

I open Visual Studio. Then I do File->Open Project->filename.vbproj

I get a blank screen, but the play button is active. If I hit it, I can see my partial project in action, but when I hit stop I get no code, and no form!

If I open Solution Explorer, I can get to the code, but I don't see anywhere to get to the form.

[jmcilhinney]

Did you create a Windows Forms application project in the first place?

[cmoloney]

I don't get the 'View Designer' option...

My options are 'view code' or 'view class diagram'


I can see my form if I hit the play button, but I can't open it to edit it.

[cmoloney]

Is it possible that I didn't save the form?? If so, is there a way to reverse engineer it from the code?

[mendhak]

It's possible that you didn't create a windows application at all. Post a screenshot of your Visual Studio window with the Solution Explorer visible.

[cmoloney]

When I created the project I did File->New Project->Windows Application->Open

[larryau101]

Hi I dont see a form. If you go to the top under view and the second listing should say designer. Click it. Or you can also press shift+F7

[cmoloney]

I guess it would seem that I didn't save the form somehow, or I deleted it somehow. I guess I'm just a fool. Thank you everyone for your help. As for me, back to square one. Yippie!

[mendhak]

Why does that look like a shortcut?

[Death Stryke]

It looks like you created a Console Application, essentially a DOS application which does not use forms.

[kartam]

If you want to do anyway with this, attach full solution with all files packed in a ZIP or RAR, i will see if there is anything to do with this...