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where have my controls gone??
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Joe Babb
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I'm running VS community edition. I have built Windows Forms programs in the past a couple of months ago. Now I tried to start a new Windows Forms program and the controls didn't show up at first, then they did and I started a form, but when I tried to build it I got errors and my controls had disappeared from Form designer. It doesn't make sense. All this was working. I shouldn't have to update anything. Wha happened?
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Viorel 118.9K Reputation points2025-01-13T18:23:09.5966667+00:00 Maybe Visual Studio must be updated or repaired. Use Search to find and use the Visual Studio Installer.
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 32,146 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2025-01-14T06:47:43.77+00:00 @Joe Babb , what do the errors say?
Does it work if you try to clear the cache folders(.vs, bin, obj)?
Will it work if you run VS administrator?
Could you share us some screenshots to check?
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