Compiler Issue in Windows 7: A generic error occurred in GDI+

Question

We have an application that we need to begin testing and developing in Windows 7 environment. It works fine compiling under WinXP in VS2008, no problems. However when I went

Answer 1

After hours of troubleshooting, I opened and built the project using the VS 2010 command line prompt using MSBUILD "my solution file path here". This provided a more visible sequence of build events, and I found my project was failing just after it compiled form 16. The forms compiling appeared to be going in order of the objects in the solution explorer. So I checked the next form and found it contained a picture box. I also checked the form after that one and found I could not open the designer without errors(object reference not set to instance of object). So apparently, the problem was now two-fold.

To resolve I had to remove the picture box object from the first form I identified as problematic (it was not being used any way) as it appeared to be corrupted. I found the second form with the null reference exception was using a user control. The code for the constructor of the user control was attempting to pass an object to a container before calling InitializeComponent(). This created the null reference since the container hadn't event been created in InitializeComponent when the problematic code was called.

After resolving the issues in the above paragraph my solution compiled under Windows 7.