Help: I can't view a WinForm in [Design] mode

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Hi, I'm using Visual Studio.Net 2002 and I can no longer open my windows
forms in Design mode. In the Solution Explorer, I see the white "VB" icons
instead of the grey "Form" icons. I already tried rebuilding the whole
solution and made sure and all of the references are correct but it still
doesn't work.

Any other ideas? Thanks in advance!
 
I have seen this and one way I got around it was to add another form to
the project. This made the gray form icons appear next to all forms.
I then deleted the newly added form.

I don't know why it behaves this way, but perhaps this will help you.

Chris
 
In Solution Explorer right click the form and chose 'Exclude From Project'.
Then right click it again and choose 'Include In Froject'.
The form should then become clickable once again.

Nima
 
Both of these solutions are fine. However, I have an added problem. Being
integrated with Visual SourceSafe, I cannot simply add/exclude/include forms
without having to check out the project file.

Any Ideas please
 

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