Vb form project resx to resx file

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I running into a problem sinds we using visual studio 2015. I have a couple of old 2010 windows form application with the resx file inside the code file (.vb). This make the compiler very slow because of the extra (2000-7000) lines.

I want to get ride of Windows Form Designer generated code inside the .vb instead of designer file

Example:

<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
      Me.OKButton = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
      Me.AppTitleLabel = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
      Me.GroupBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
      Me.AppDescriptionLabel = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
      Me.AppVersionLabel = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
      Me.AppCopyrightLabel = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
      Me.SysInfoButton = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
      Me.AppDateLabel = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
      Me.ImagePictureBox = New System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox
      Me.DetailsButton = New System.Windows.Forms.Button

This code is for all 2010 application in the vb script file.
if i copy paste this in a seperated designer file its creating a new windows form designer. Does anyone have a solution to get this separated without (re)building a new design file (a tool or something)?

What I have tried:

Copy resx file by hand.
Searching on forum for solution.

Posted 30-Mar-17 21:07pm

Wessel Beulink

Updated 31-Mar-17 2:40am

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Graeme_Grant 31-Mar-17 4:10am

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Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 4:59am

Ofcorse i'll include a example. Thnx, Hope this is better now? I unfortunately do not have any other errors or details it's more about a out-dated project.

CHill60 31-Mar-17 6:43am

I would expect that code to be in a form's designer.vb file not resx file. If you delete the code then it is equivalent to removing the controls from the form.
If the compile takes a long time, then it takes a long time

Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 7:24am

Sorry you are right I mean designer.vb and not the resx file. All my projects before vs 2013 are not separated in a script.vb and script.designer.vb

CHill60 31-Mar-17 7:48am

In that case you most definitely do NOT want to remove that code - unless you really do want to remove the controls from the form. I've got VS2008 installed and it creates a Form1.vb AND a Form1.Designer.vb. How long is this compile taking anyway?

Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 7:58am

About 1-3 seconds for each file. Multiple software engineers have the same issue here. Most annoying is the auto complete function in visual witch makes debugging/auto-completion sometimes very slow. Also it's not the hardware we all run a up-to-date system I7/ssd/32gb ram.

CHill60 31-Mar-17 8:16am

Try changing the Source Control plug-in ... Tools, Options. Source Control then change "Current source control plug-in" to None.
If you use Resharper then try suspending that.
Try cleaning the solution

Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 9:20am

Not running any Source Control plugin-ins using external git control. Also Resharper is not installed.

CHill60 31-Mar-17 9:25am

VS will default to VS Team Foundation Server - have you actually checked that the setting is set to "None"

Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 9:31am

Yes I have set it to None. But already did that a couple of months ago. Also set the amount of cpu cores to 6 instead of default 2, also no result :(

Dave Kreskowiak 31-Mar-17 9:06am

2000-7000 lines in the designer generated code? How many controls do you have on this form?

Wessel Beulink 31-Mar-17 9:19am

To much, maybe reconstructing this 'dragon' forms is the best solution. But I was hoping on a less-time solution.

Dave Kreskowiak 31-Mar-17 10:26am

If you've got a thousand controls on a form, you've got a serious design problem. It no wonder everything is so slow.

Dave Kreskowiak 31-Mar-17 10:35am

If you've got a thousand controls on the form, you've got a serious design problem.

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31T02:39:00

Splitting a form into partial classes is the sort of thing you used to be able to do with a macro[^]. But unfortunately, macros were removed in VS2012.

There's an add-in for VS2012 on CodeProject - I'm not sure if it will work in VS2015:
A Visual Studio add-in to move Windows Forms Designer generated code from a .vb file to a .Designer.vb file[^]

There's also a stand-alone tool, which claims to support VS2010 projects:
DeCodEx | CoolSoft[^]

If neither of those work, you can always split the file manually:
visual studio - Split old .NET code into designer partial class - Stack Overflow[^]