When will MS get VS under control??????????

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When will MS get VS under control??????????

Lloyd Sheen 1,486

The project is a win forms project.

So I take my project (created before 17.4.5) and add a couple of lines of code. Go to run it and get

"Should have two or more class parts". A search for that come up blank.

So click that and "Unable to start debugging ...........".

Also cannot close VS as I keep getting the "should have" msg.

So now VS is so broken that I cannot make changes, debug, do ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So then I close the form designer and don't save it. Now it appears that the project no longer knows what a form is.

IS THERE A DEVELOPMENT TOOL THAT DOES MAUI AND ACTUALLY WORKS????????????

IS THERE A DEVELOPMENT TOOL THAT MS HAS ENOUGH PRIDE IN TO MAKE IT WORK??????

Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-25T17:05:59.08+00:00

Oh and I have now tried all sorts of controls to add to the form but nothing works. I would love to have someone from MS at least view how screwed up VS is now. If I remove the control it will execute/not execute. At present VS is such a poor tool. I have been using it for decades and this is by far the worst it has ever been. Hey MS people contact me if you want to see a poor tool.
Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-25T17:16:26.6733333+00:00

So looking further I see that now it is giving me errors on the build. Lets click the error number to see what the problem is. OH THAT ERROR DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!!!

To call VS now a pathetic product is being non rude.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State

Error MSB3883 Unexpected exception: LetSeeHowScrewedUpVSIs C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets 4704
Reza Aghaei 4,981 Reputation points MVP

2023-02-25T23:16:14.88+00:00

Please read code of conduct. Also provide a step by step guide on how to reproduce the issue. People need to be able to reproduce the issue or know more details about your project to be able to help.
Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-26T16:20:16.67+00:00

Perhaps MS should have a code of conduct. Lets say document error codes. With out that when you get an error you have no idea of what is wrong. I have spent about 50% of my time dealing with VS since the 17.4.2. Not being able to add a button to a win forms app is just about the worst. I have used this dev tool for at least 25 years and never has it been in such poor shape.
Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,956 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-30T02:41:27.4866667+00:00

Hello everyone, the issue has been fixed, please update your VS to the latest version with Visual Studio Installer.

Thank you for helping us build a better Visual Studio!

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Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-25T17:05:59.08+00:00

Oh and I have now tried all sorts of controls to add to the form but nothing works. I would love to have someone from MS at least view how screwed up VS is now. If I remove the control it will execute/not execute. At present VS is such a poor tool. I have been using it for decades and this is by far the worst it has ever been. Hey MS people contact me if you want to see a poor tool.
Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-25T17:16:26.6733333+00:00

So looking further I see that now it is giving me errors on the build. Lets click the error number to see what the problem is. OH THAT ERROR DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!!!

To call VS now a pathetic product is being non rude.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State

Error MSB3883 Unexpected exception: LetSeeHowScrewedUpVSIs C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets 4704
Reza Aghaei 4,981 Reputation points MVP

2023-02-25T23:16:14.88+00:00

Please read code of conduct. Also provide a step by step guide on how to reproduce the issue. People need to be able to reproduce the issue or know more details about your project to be able to help.
Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-26T16:20:16.67+00:00

Perhaps MS should have a code of conduct. Lets say document error codes. With out that when you get an error you have no idea of what is wrong. I have spent about 50% of my time dealing with VS since the 17.4.2. Not being able to add a button to a win forms app is just about the worst. I have used this dev tool for at least 25 years and never has it been in such poor shape.
Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,956 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-30T02:41:27.4866667+00:00

Hello everyone, the issue has been fixed, please update your VS to the latest version with Visual Studio Installer.

Thank you for helping us build a better Visual Studio!

Answer 1

Patrick Gallagher 10

I had the same problem. I had a second small class defined in the form class file.

Moving this class into its own file solved the problem.

Greg Ryker(C) 0 Reputation points

2023-03-02T17:22:23.5166667+00:00

I had the same issue and Patrick's answer immediately resolved my problem, so I have upvoted it. Thanks Patrick!!!

Answer 2

Reza Aghaei 4,981 MVP

I've used the same VS version, without an issue, and now I'm on 17.4.4 and soon I'll update to 17.5. On thing that you may want to make sure is:

Make sure you have a correct installation of Windows Development tools (by opening VS installer and making sure the windows desktop development workload is checked)
If you are experiencing issues with WinForms .NET project templates, you may want to use .NET Framework. Sometimes you may encounter temporary issues with VS WinForms designer of .NET 6 or 7 as it's totally new and different. But the VS WinForms designer of .NET Framework is the good old one without any change.

You may also want to take a look at this:

Create a Windows Forms app in Visual Studio with C#

The guide is up to date and shows the both points that I mentioned above.

As I mentioned in my last comment, you need to share step-by-step guide, or maybe some screenshot of the issue, otherwise people cannot easily guess what the issue you are encountering and what the possible solutions may exists for that.

Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-26T16:39:18.08+00:00

Since VS started having problems, I have a new workstation, have reinstalled VS 5 times, fixed it 3.

I have created lots of win forms apps. I had one that I was using to test Tasks as it was faster than putting it in a Maui app right away. I updated to 17.4.5 and next day I cannot add a button to the app (simple drag and drop from ToolBox). When I try I get all sorts of error messages that doing searches for find nothing. I could show you on Teams but I am now using WPF to test and it does not have the problems. Perhaps MS is trying to phase out win forms and making it hard to use is their best way
Reza Aghaei 4,981 Reputation points MVP

2023-02-26T17:00:57.1533333+00:00

Windows MAUI is different from WinForms. Which one you are trying to use and have issue?
Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-26T17:10:17.8533333+00:00

Well this is an answer to the email about this post, (this site is so terrible that your latest post does not show).

I was using win forms as it was much faster to use. I have never used more than one task so running with an array of tasks has some problems that I need to learn to get around. Maui will be the eventual destination for the code.

Answer 3

(Feb 27, 2023) After installing VS 17.5 (I have VS 2022 Pro), I have been experiencing the same thing whereby when double-clicking on a Button1 on Form1, I have been getting either the "should have two classes" popup, or the "Commit line" popup. Although there is unique code and no redundant code for Button1, and the appropriate "Handles Button1.Click" is listed at the suffix of Button1's code, VS is not taking me to that code. MS needs to not ask users questions about duplicating this issue, but rather, ask themselves:

Why are the "should have two classes" and "commit line" popups being triggered when a user double-clicks on a Button1 on Form1?
Why does VS not navigate and show the code listing for Button1 after double-clicking on Button1?

Lloyd Sheen 1,486 Reputation points

2023-02-27T19:21:09.9133333+00:00

I totally agree, seems that we get "internal" messages that are not documented and support is not forthcoming.

Answer 4

Hello everyone,

I tested on the latest version 17.5.1 and can reproduce the error “Should have two or more class parts”.

I found that other community users have reported the issue.

Please vote it in that ticket and add your comments to track the process.

If there are any updates from Product Team, I will update here.

Thanks for your understanding!

Sincerely,

Anna

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