when I try choose an image by importing a bmp file. I found the visual
studio express creating a designer vile for my project. that is if my
assembly name is myapp, I will find a new file myapp.designer.vb that did
not exist before. what bothers me is that immediately I see a lot of errors
showing up on missing various dataset, components. if save the project, I
would not be able to reopen in designer

Strange but after Visual studio crashed and restarted, the problem went
away.

For some strange reason, after several close re-open visual studio, between
working on other parts of the form and adding items to the main menu.
VStudio crashed.

I lost some work. however, after complete project backup, I opened vstudio,
redo the lost changes on the menu again.

Noticing V.Studio created an "application.designer.vb" file I decided to.
save and close the project. as well to close VS

backup project

I tired my luck on image import. I was able to change image from the image
attribute of the control. no errors was found and was able to compile. I
went to change image of another control without incidents

Weird.. For all I know, closing the VS but itself did not resolve the
issue.

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