Now a have a new major problem. I spent two months rewriting my application and when I load the project I get this message:

Some bytes have been replaced with the Unicode substitution character while loading file G:\Application\Application\
MainForm.Designer.vb with Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. Saving the file will not preserve the original file contents.
The backup I made of the project has the same. When I click OK and let it load, then MainForm.Designer.vb contains this. The bottom half of that file is just gibberish.

vb.net Code:
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  5.         Me.lvwSearch.FullRowSelect = True

  6.         Me.lvwSearch.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(3, 5)

  7.         Me.lvwSearch.Name = "lvwSearch"

  8.         Me.lvwSearch.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(650, 389)

  9.         Me.lvwSearch.TabIndex = 16

  10.         Me.lvwSearch.UseCompatibleStateImageBehavior = False

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