IDE Support for WinForms

Hey guys I'm a newbie and I just wanted to know of the people who do Winforms on Visual studio, at your place of work do your forms have IDE support. Because for some reason I don't have IDE support on 99% of the windows forms I'm working with. I mean I can not 开发者_如何学Gosee anything on the design view except for errors is this the usual case in industry????

Are you using any 3rd party UI controls? Some have dll's for the design view to work, and if you haven't installed the toolkit on your developer machine you might get errors like this.

One possible explanation for having errors on forms is licensing. If your company uses third-party controls on their forms, they could cause errors when trying to display the forms on unlicensed machines.

Another possible explanation for errors with third-party controls is simply installation. If you don't have the controls installed and referenced properly, that could also cause errors.

You could try to post some of the errors you have to another Stack Overflow question, and perhaps the community could help you solve your errors.

Sorry, WinForms is not broken for us (me). Check your code. Sometimes WinForms applications that were developed under Visual Sudio 2003 (or earlier) when upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 (or later) become unstable.

Start with a new form, and if the IDE (it is called a visual designer) works fine, then think about re-creating the old forms from scratch with the newest VS installation.

Your question isn't clear!, if the Visual Studio Designer not working well then re-install the IDE

Or explain more...

You should be able to view the forms in the design view.
Always unless there is an error in code. In case the project is building you should get the same error (this is a runtime error) that you will generally get when you run the code.
In case the project is not building it will be simpler to fix the errors :)