For last 2-3 days days we are facing a design problem in the VWG form.Actually we are using around 20-30 controls in a form and continuing development ,At some point of time after working for couple of hours on that form , we see that the controls are distorted in the form and after checking we find that the location(X,Y) property of some of the controls become -ve ,i.e those controls are not visible in the form.

The development is on XP box with 1 GB RAM and having Visual Studio 2008 with Visual WebGUI 6.3 version.

Can someone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Samarendra Swain

This happens to me too in VS 2008.  I've lost many controls because of this issue.

Many times, I haven't realized it moved the Location of my controls until its too late - and I've already saved.  I believe this can also happen when I'm in code-view, while the designer is open.  So I can constantly be saving my code, but it will also be saving the Design, and I can't see if its screwed up or not.

Very frustrating.  Here's the workaround I've used so far:  never add controls directly to the Form/UserControl.  Put everything inside a Panel-type container, and it will only move that one Panel.  So you can simply readjust the Panel Location, and all your controls will be back.

Does anyone have a real fix for this issue?

Ryan

Hi

It's not just controls also the form positions get screwed up.

The form opens and half of it is off the screen.

Now I always define the form position and open  at the same place

m_Form.Left = Form_Left
m_Form.Top = Form_Top
m_Form.Show()

Left is easy to find by getting the width of controls

Top is a guesstimate using Form.Top (from Mainform) and adding a number like 140

I have both controls and forms screwed up using VWG but never in Winforms

Jay