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

I've seen this happen with Visual Basic 6.0 and early .NET when the OS was having problems. We had to do a reboot and repair.