Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

Rob G — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:28:36 GMT

I think I found the issue, it appears that the designer file will fail to generate completely if it encounters an error in the markup.

Some of the buttons already had a SkinID applied, so they were throwing an exception:

The tag contains duplicate 'SkinId' attributes.

It would be good if something could be done to make this more obvious.

Thanks for your help.

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

Rob G — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:01:44 GMT

I tried deleting the designer file and regenerating it using the "Convert to Web Application" method mentioned above, but with the same error.

I am going to try and strip it down to something that I can send shortly.

Thanks,

Rob

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

Web Development Tools Microsoft — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:12:27 GMT

Hey Rob,

I have tried to reproduce this scenario and could not get the issue you describe to occur on our end. Did this issue occur after adding the SkinId attribute to an existing control (one added before apply the patch)?

Could you try and regenerate the designer file and see if you still see this. The way to do this is:-

1) Delete the designer file of the page where you see this issue

2) Select the page in solution explorer

3) Right-click on it and select "Convert to Web Application" to regenerate the designer file.

If you still see this issue I would like to debug this further to help solve this. Could you share the page (and possibly the project) that is encountering this issue? You can send it to us at vsweb@microsoft.com.

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

Rob G — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:47:19 GMT

We have installed the .designer file fix and are still seeing the issue with the designer files not generating correctly. Just today I added SkinID attributes to some buttons and now 6 of my pages designer files are missing half their controls.

Some of the pages are using the ajaxcontrol toolkit. Has anyone else applied this patch and is still experiencing this issue?

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

martin robins — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:28:43 GMT

I have now installed the hotfix (along with the two previous hotfixes) and I can confirm that, so far, the functionality has been restored and the web forms designer is now adding the embedded controls to the .designer.cs correctly.

Thanks.

re: Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

Troy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:04:48 GMT

Perfect thank you very much!!! Now I can do some testing. Really Really appreciate this patch!