You were correct. I had somehow obtained a bunch of undefined references
which I deleted. I also deleted my references to Crystal Report Viewer.
"Atul" wrote:
> Are you using any 3rd party components. Make sure that the 'References' to
> them are correct.
>
> -Atul, Sky Software
http://www.ssware.com > Shell MegaPack For ActiveX & .Net - Windows Explorer Like Shell UI Controls
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> "Bill Grigg" <BillGrigg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:00432259-3DB2-4506-A5B9-8A6AA8BF2777@microsoft.com...
> > ALL,
> >
> > I recently had to reinstall Visual Studio .NET 2003. This was because I
> > got
> > a new computer at my company, and in fact will need to reinstall a whole
> > bunch of apps. In any case, when I try to load the "design" view of my one
> > and only form (i.e. Form1.h[Design]) none of the controls are visible, and
> > there is an error message that says:
> >
> > "An error occurred while loading the document. Fix the error, and then try
> > loading
> > the document again. The error message follows:
> >
> > Unspecified error"
> >
> > When I tried recompiling I got no error messages, but when I tried to run
> > it
> > I got "exceptions" at the following 2 lines of code:
> >
> > // this->odbcDataAdapter2->Fill(this->dataSet1);
> >
> > // this->dgrDragonflyTDF->SetDataBinding(this->dataSet1,S"TDF");
> >
> > After commenting out the above 2 lines, the form compiled and ran. In
> > other
> > words, all of the controls were visible and seemed to behave as usual. In
> > short, the form and all of its controls are visible when the .exe in
> > executed, but not available at design time. I am guessing that there is
> > probably some DLL that I need to reinstall, but I cannot guess what it
> > (they)
> > may be.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Bill Grigg
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