VS 2017 forms corruption (all forms in project)

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This is beyond odd ... the following corruption has occurred to all of the forms files when I view a form in either Visual Studio 2012 and VS 2017. All of the controls on the form appears in the lower design area (I really don't know what that area of a VS2017 forms designer is so I cannot be more specific).

Here is a picture that will make things a bit more clear.

VS 2017 Forms Corruption Illustration

Thanks for any help,

C. T. Blankenship

What I have tried:

I've restored the project from many backups I have. No matter how far back I go the problem persists.

Posted 5-Oct-19 10:30am

Charles T. Blankenship

Updated 7-Oct-19 1:15am

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Oct-19 17:32pm

I have never seen that in any version of VS. I suggest you open the frmDataImport.Designer.cs file in a text editor to see if you can spot anything amiss.

Charles T. Blankenship 5-Oct-19 18:34pm

OH MY GOD!!! There is absolutely nothing wrong with the development environment. I transferred the entire project to my backup development machine and the files are perfectly OK. Last night I upgraded the entire Windows OS to the newest version (at the behest of MS as my last version was going past the support window). That just CAN'T be the problem ... can it?

Maciej Los 7-Oct-19 7:02am

Have you tried to open VS in admin mode?

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2019-10-07T01:15:00

Solution 2

Please, read my comment to the question first.

I guess that it is NOT a bug. You enabled document outline view:

View --> Other Windows --> Document Outline

Disable it and everything should be OK.

Posted 7-Oct-19 1:15am

Maciej Los

Updated 7-Oct-19 1:58am

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Charles T. Blankenship 7-Oct-19 9:36am

You are a genius ... you don't know how many hours you saved me!!! Thanks so much!!!

Maciej Los 7-Oct-19 16:00pm

;)

Charles T. Blankenship 7-Oct-19 10:05am

Damn ... I gave accolades prematurely ... I did as you suggested and it appeared to work on one form then the problem came back. When you say 'disable' do you mean to close the window? I went to the menu option you suggested and selected 'Document Outline' but the only thing that did was to close the Document Outline window.

Sorry if I'm being dense.

CT

Maciej Los 7-Oct-19 15:59pm

Well... If it not helped, try to repair/reinstall VS.

Charles T. Blankenship 11-Oct-19 12:06pm

Never mind guys ... I reinstalled Windows and my development environment. It was a two day struggle but everything is working now. I sure would have liked to know what happened. Now I just created a disk image of the C drive and can initialize back to a stable environment if Windows Update begins to get squirrely again.

Maciej Los 14-Oct-19 2:00am

Nice to know that you resolved your issue.

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2019-10-05T10:36:00

You are out of luck on that one:

The security of your connection is reduced. Criminals can attempt to steal your data from the website. You are advised to leave this website.

URL:

www.novantconsulting.com

Reason:

Invalid name of certificate. Either the name is not on the allowed list, or was explicitly excluded. View certificate

I haven't added any exclusions, so your company has a problem...