Data Source items go blank when form designer is active in 2005 Pro

I am following the msdn tutorial "New Dataset Features in Visual Studio 2005", and have created the sample project twice.  Everything works as advertised, except that when I bring up the blank Form1 designer to drag data items from the data source window, the data source list disappears!

As soon as I switch to the form to add data, the data source list blanks out.

Can anyone give me a clue what to do


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Data Source items go blank when form designer is active in 2005 Pro

  • ATsim

    I have the same problem. When designing dataf orms I am forced to do them on another PC with the beta 2 loaded. Must be some setting somewhere but I cannot find anything in the documentation.
  • Duane Reno

    I found the solution to the problem here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=125313&SiteID=1

    Following that thread I deleted the file left over from Beta 2 named: C:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\DataBindingSetting\WinFormControls.xml

    and the problem vanished.


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