Help! strange problems with froms in design mode

[David]

This is a project that I've worked on and this day, I am observing the
following strange things
- Upon opening a form in VS.NET, I get a box with the message that says
"Tasklist 378 build error task shown(filtered)" I am not compiling. I am
just opening up a form in design mode

- The error message says "Object type cannot be converted to target type."

- Much more strangely, all the forms are shrunk to the orignal size (300,
300) size of the a newly added form

- Controls inside these forms have been scrambled and gobbled up.

- When run, on some forms, the controls show up properly although they still
look gobbled up in design mode. Then on some forms, the controls look all
gobbled up as they do in design mode.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

 

[David]

I discovered the problem. I was experimenting with making System and
System.Drawing assemblies's Copy Local properties to true, and that is what
got me. As usual, Microsoft screws you without letting you know that they
are doing it.