Form design without a project?

[Dan]

Hi. I'm not sure whether this is the right group to post this in - if not
can you advise me of a better suited newsgroup to post to instead?

I'm just starting playing around with C# and windows forms. In the past,
all my C/C++ projects have been my own custom makefile, and I do all my
compiling from the dos prompt (without an actual VC project). I would like
to keep my C# coding the same. I've got a C# makefile set up now, and it
works fine. However, I would like to use the Visual Studio Designer to
modify my forms. Is it possible to get the Visual Studio form designer to
modify a .cs file without actually having a visual studio project? I've
just loading the .cs file into Visual Studio, and it obviously allows me to
edit the code - but I can't find a way to get into design view when I've no
active project. If not, is there any other form designer programs that can?

Thanks for any info with this,
Regards,
Dan.

 

[Mohamoss]

Hi Dan
What are you missing here is the resource file used by visual studio
designer.I am not sure you can do that while there is no resource file to
your from( ext .resx). May be if you create a resource file for your from.
You can read more about that on this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconResourcesInResxFileFormat.asp
Mohamed M .Mahfouz
Developer Support Engineer
ITWorx on behalf of Microsoft EMEA GTSC