User Control Disappears from Design View

peter.brooks322y ago

I have writen a couple of user controls and found them dropping from the form. After some checking I found that I must a constructor that does not take any paramters. It appears the form designer uses this to draw the controls on the screen.

james22y ago

I've had the same types of problems when developing user controls, I think this is just a VS.NET bug...

rulec44422y ago

I've had this happen. The only way I could control it is take my code out of the InitializeComponent and put it in its own method and call it from the constructor. It makes maintenance ugly, but eliminates the issue of it disappearing.

jcity44422y ago

I've also had this problem recently and I'm not sure what causes it. I think it is linked to changing the user control's code signatures, but can't guarantee it. -Mike G.