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Windows Forms Designer Error Messages

The following is a list of the errors messages you may encounter when using the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio.

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'<identifier name>' is not a valid identifier

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'<name>' already exists in '<project name>'

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'<Toolbox tab name>' is not a toolbox category

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A requested language parser is not installed

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A service required for generating and parsing source code is missing

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An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of '<object name>'

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Another editor has '<document name>' open in an incompatible mode

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Another editor has made changes to '<document name>'

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Another editor has the file open in an incompatible mode

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Array rank '<rank in array>' is too high

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Assembly '<assembly name>' could not be opened

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Bad element type. This serializer expects an element of type '<type name>'.

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Cannot access the Visual Studio Toolbox at this time

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Cannot bind an event handler to the '<event name>' event because it is read-only

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Cannot create a method name for the requested component because it is not a member of the design container

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Cannot name the object '<name>' because it is already named '<name>'

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Cannot remove or destroy inherited component '<component name>'

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Category '<Toolbox tab name>' does not have a tool for class '<class name>'

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Class '<class name>' has no matching constructor

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Code generation for property '<property name>' failed

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Component '<component name>' did not call Container.Add() in its constructor

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Component name cannot be empty

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Could not access the variable '<variable name>' because it has not been initialized yet

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Could not find type '<type name>'

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Could not load type '<type name>'

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Could not locate the project item templates for inherited components

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Delegate class '<class name>' has no invoke method. Is this class a delegate?

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Duplicate declaration of member '<member name>'

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Error reading resources from the resource file for the culture '<culture name>'

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Error reading resources from the resource file for the default culture '<culture name>'

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Failed to parse method '<method name>'

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Invalid component name: '<component name>'

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The assembly '<assembly name>' could not be found

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The assembly name '<assembly name>' is invalid

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The base class '<class name>' cannot be designed

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The base class '<class name>' could not be loaded

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The class '<class name>' cannot be designed in this version of Visual Studio

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The class name is not a valid identifier for this language

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The component cannot be added because it contains a circular reference to '<reference name>'

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The designer cannot be modified at this time

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The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed

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The designer for base class '<class name>' is not installed

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The designer inspected the following classes in the file:

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The designer must create an instance of type '<type name>', but it can't because the type is declared as abstract

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The file could not be loaded in the designer

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The following exception has occurred:

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The language for this file does not support the necessary code parsing and generation services

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The language parser class '<class name>' is not implemented properly

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The name '<name>' is already used by another object

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The object '<object name>' does not implement the IComponent interface

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The object '<object name>' returned null for the property '<property name>' but this is not allowed

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The serialization data object is not of the proper type

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The service '<service name>' is required, but could not be located

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The service instance must derive from or implement '<interface name>'

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The text in the code window could not be modified

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The Toolbox enumerator object only supports retrieving one item at a time

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The Toolbox item for '<component name>' could not be retrieved from the Toolbox

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The Toolbox item for '<Toolbox item name>' could not be retrieved from the Toolbox

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The type '<type name>' could not be found

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The type '<type name>' has no event named '<event name>'

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The type '<type name>' has no field named '<field name>'

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The type '<type name>' has no property named '<property name>'

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The type resolution service may only be called from the main application thread

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The variable '<variable name>' is either undeclared or was never assigned

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There is already a command handler for the menu command '<menu command name>'

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There is already a component named '<component name>'

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There is already a Toolbox item creator registered for the format '<format name>'

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This language engine does not support a CodeModel with which to load a designer

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Type '<type name>' does not have a constructor with parameters of types '<parameter type names>'

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Unable to add reference '<reference name>' to the current application

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Unable to check out the current file

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Unable to find page named '<Options dialog box tab name>'

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Unable to find property '<property name>' on page '<Options dialog box tab name>'

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Unable to load assembly '<assembly name>'

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Visual Studio cannot open a designer for the file because the class within it does not inherit from a class that can be visually designed

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Visual Studio cannot save or load instances of the type '<type name>'

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Visual Studio is unable to open '<document name>' in Design view

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Visual Studio was unable to find a designer for classes of type '<type name>'

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