"John Bowman john.bow***@thermo.com>" <<Remove this before reply> wrote in
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> Hi All,
>
> When VS 2005 visual designer attempts to open an inherited windows form it
> attempts to instantiate the form. Unfortunately, this does not work under
> certain conditions/needs to the form's constructor. You get a nasty error
> something like: "One or more errors encountered while loading the
> designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by
> rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes." Well,
> I've tracked this down as to what's causing it. I need to be able to
> detect in the form's constructor that it's being instantiated by Visual
> Studio so I can insert some special code that fixes that problem when the
> form is instantitated via VS. I'm, sure I came accross something like that
> a while ago somewhere, but now I cannot find it. Can someone please point
> me to how to go about detecting when VS designer is attempting to
> instantiate a windows form?
>
> TIA,
>
>
> John C. Bowman
> Software Engineer
> Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments Div.
> <Remove this before reply> john.bow***@thermo.com
>

"Kevin Spencer" <u**@ftc.gov> wrote in message
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> Use Component.DesignMode to determine whether the app is being run in
> Design mode:
>
> if (!DesignMode)
> {
>    //.....
> }
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> Chicken Salad Surgery
>
> What You Seek Is What You Get.
>
> "John Bowman john.bow***@thermo.com>" <<Remove this before reply> wrote in
> message news:u0KXVPo0GHA.2036@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When VS 2005 visual designer attempts to open an inherited windows form
>> it attempts to instantiate the form. Unfortunately, this does not work
>> under certain conditions/needs to the form's constructor. You get a nasty
>> error something like: "One or more errors encountered while loading the
>> designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by
>> rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes." Well,
>> I've tracked this down as to what's causing it. I need to be able to
>> detect in the form's constructor that it's being instantiated by Visual
>> Studio so I can insert some special code that fixes that problem when the
>> form is instantitated via VS. I'm, sure I came accross something like
>> that a while ago somewhere, but now I cannot find it. Can someone please
>> point me to how to go about detecting when VS designer is attempting to
>> instantiate a windows form?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>> John C. Bowman
>> Software Engineer
>> Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments Div.
>> <Remove this before reply> john.bow***@thermo.com
>>
>
>