display paintdotnet forms in visual designer errors

[zashone]

Hi

I just downloaded and compiled the debug source code of paint.net. Everything works well after removing some checks from startup.cs.

I would like to see the forms in the designer but unfortunately if i double click on a form (or dialog) i have an error message in visual studio 2008 pro.

   To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved:   

   1 Error   

 Ignore and Continue   
   Why am I seeing this page?   

  Root element is missing.     

Instances of this error (1)  

1.   Hide Call Stack 

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at System.Resources.ResXResourceReader.ParseXml(XmlTextReader reader)  

Help with this error  

Could not find an associated help topic for this error. Check Windows Forms Design-Time error list   


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Could somebody help please , thanks

[Rick Brewster]

I do not use the forms designer to write the forms. They do not work in the forms designer if you try to load them there. This is not a bug.

[pyrochild]

You can make most of them work with some fancy copy/pasting, but it's really more trouble than it's worth.