Visual c# nothing is appearing

This might sound extremly strange, but i have 开发者_C百科no idea what to do.

Visual studio 2008 c# windows form

I've been working on a project for a while, and it's all been rosy. Now, anything i add to the windows form in terms of labels, picturebox's ect don't appear at runtime. They are visible in the designer view, but do not appear at run time. Now, even when i move things that were already there, they don't move at runtime.

I'm guessing this is the cause of a windows update messing with visual studio again, but i can't find anything on the problem

Just a note, The project runs exactly how i left it yesterday every single time. Regarless if i move objects, add labels.

Anyone know of anything like this, know of a fix.

Thank you

I think you should Clean your solution and then rebuild it. As you are using Express Edition, Clean option might not be added by default.

Go to Tools -> Settings and Select "Express Settings". Now go to Tools -> Customize. And select Commands tab in the dialog. In the dropdown next to Menubar radiobutton, select Build. Click on AddCommands and add "Clean Solution".

Now you can go to Build -> Clean Solution. And then rebuild the project.

One time, I found the .suo file of the solution corrupted for unknown reasons.

Delete or rename it, then try again ?

The designer for classname.cs rewrites classname.designer.cs. View the code of the designer.cs and see if your changes are actually being saved into this file. Try hand-editing this file (change a label string or something else easy to spot at runtime).

Maybe the designer.cs file is read-only or perhaps there is a design-time exception that prevents saving the new .cs. I have run into issues like this when I had third-party component libraries in a project and the third-party designers were crashing.

Did you perhaps remove the call to InitializeComponent() from your Form class constructor?