While opening the designer

Question

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The control System.Windows.Forms.Form has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. 



Exception:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.



Stack trace:

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnVisibleChanged(EventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
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OK  
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i am getting this error while opening a form in design mode (visual studio 2008)
anyone knows how to solve this

Answer 1

You may take a look at this article to see if it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810098

Thanks,

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Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution