How do I keep Visual Studio's Windows Forms Designer from deleting controls?

Question

With several forms of mine, I occasionally run into the following issue: I edit the form using the designer (Visual Studio 2008, Windows Forms, .NET 2.0, VB.NET) to add comp

Answer 1

If you can reproduce the problem, then you can determine whether or not the cause is an exception. Start a second instance of Visual Studio and use "Tools->Attach to Process" to attach to the first one. Then proceed to reproduce the problem, and the code should break when the unhandled exception is thrown. Information about other exceptions (possibly handled) will be visible in the Output window.