VS.NET ate my controls....AND...code
A few months back, I developed a test app at office using ChartFX and VB.NET....a standard windows application....Everything was working just fine....and I wanted to demo it to my boss. Boss comes over...and I try and run the program....once....worked fine...and then made some change in the code and then tried to run it again...and well....worked again.....then i closed the solution....and opened it again after maybe 2 mins....and tadaaa......”VS.NET ate my controls from the desinger view:”...literally.....right infront of my eyes..... I saw the designer flash by and show the controls and the next moment...they were gone.... A lot of googling did not seem to help either.....and I ended up reformatting my system.
Now...all this happened right infront of my boss.....and what more would I require to prove Murphy's law “Things go wrong at the worst possible time”. all this happens after toiling hard enough all day and hoping that my boss wont find any bugs....
Whatz even more weird...all the related code for the controls in the code-behind is gone too....and the solution still compiles still fine....and on an attempt to run it...it just shows a blank screen. Its like......magic....(grrrrrr).
And now....while browsing through some blogs, I bump into a related article....on VS.NET designer issues