Today I started working on a C# project after reading up a bit it. The language is fairly simple but the resource editor in VS 2003 just um...well...sucks.
At odd times after a successful build and run my dialog resource (the main dialog for the app) will have absolutely no controls. I can still view the code for it but the design view shows a blank dialog. After it does this I have no way of fixing it.
I put a known good form file and a known bad one in Araxis merge and it showed that Visual Studio was removing the lines that set the size and color of controls. It's possible that the size is being set to 0 which would explain why I cannot see anything on my dialog. Why is Visual Studio altering the size of my controls in my source file after a build??? Also I put a thirdy party grid control inside of a groupbox and lost the ability to size the grid. Then I deleted the group box which then deleted the grid.....but the grid reference was still there even though the grid was nowhere to be found. There was no way to delete the previous grid so I made a new one and named it something different. Is Visual Studio 2003 .NET a total piece of crap or am I missing some major updates?
Anyone know of some workarounds so I can actually get something done at work besides troubleshooting Microsoft errors.
. I mean they are already releasing 2008, which makes 2003 way old.
