Hi,
I'm currently working with 6.3.6, Visual Web Developer Express 2008, and Windows Server 2003.
I know there are currently some pending issues with the designer...whenever I switch from my code to my form, the form loads, then refreshes itself, and the property grid goes blank. I have to close the form and re-open it to get the properties back. No big issue here, it's workable.
Tonight, I added a MainMenu to my form, and spent about 20 minutes adding and customizing menu items. The property grid of the form was present and working. I saved my form, and ran it. I couldn't figure out why none of the menu items were showing up. So I closed the browser and went back to the designer- all the sub-menu items were gone. The top row (main) menu items were still there, but all their children were gone. But I could still see all of them in the controls listing. And I went into the designer code, and I could still see all of the code for all of the sub-menu items. Somehow, they had become disconnected from their parents (the addrange lines were gone).
So I deleted all of the child menu items from the designer code, and the top-level items, and the main menu declaration.
I added a new mainmenu to the form, with one child menu. I can see the child menu's text in the designer, however, when i run the form, only the parent's text shows up. When I click on the menu, it drops down, but the child menu's text does not show up.
Does the MainMenu have some unresolved issues that are pending for 6.4? I have never used the MainMenu before in my code and I was really looking forward to it., but I'm scared of having to deal with a situation where I have to edit the designer code myself again.
Any insights?
Thanks!
-Danny