Error Could not open form interface design in C# ?

Dong Lam Trien

When my form design interface when editing files close and reopen frmMain.Designer.cs not see the look of the form, press Rebuil ..., press F5 or click Clear Solution no errors, press F5 to run normally, view form, but not the interface design in the form editor mode, in drafting VS screen and press select view designer frmMain.cs it his fault output stream to the attached word file, this case you can go back to the most recent edits or a way to view the form interface design? (Except sit redesigned from scratch) you view attachments error: http://www.mediafire.com/file/3fnke7btqaiab47/Error.doc

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Nilesh Shah9y ago
Hi Dong,

is your problem solved completely?

Can you mark my answer as "Accepted" if it did.
Dong Lam Trien9y ago
Thank you for helping me find the error just before
Nilesh Shah9y ago
The error in your error.doc is
"The name 'components' is already used by another object."

This means in your form you have somehow 2 controls/objects with same name "components", that's why it cannot be seen in designer.

I advice you to open the form's designer.cs file in notepad or any other editor, find the control with name "components" in InitializeComponent() method any remove second instance.