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I designed two forms in a VB.NET project on Windows 10 64 bit with Visual Studio 2022 and I was able to view the entire forms in their design windows, so I placed all controls in roughly their correct spots. I saved my work, but later fell asleep at the desk and accidentally touched some keys on the keyboard. Now the vb form design window that was active at the time is zoomed in and does not show the entire form, only about half of it, and a few buttons of minor importance are missing or perhaps hidden. I can move around the form with the scroll bars but cannot zoom out or in. I have used the mouse wheel with and without the control key, I've tried all combinations of ctrl, shift, alt, >, <, +, and -. There is no slider or zoom % indicator in any of the vb windows. Reloading and rebooting do not make a difference. I closed the window and reopened it and it still comes back zoomed in. The other form in my project displays normally and the code swindows are okay. Closing the design view and re-opening it did not change anything. The properties show that the frame, containers and controls are all the proper size. Browser windows zoom normally and I can zoom text with the CTRL key and < or > or the mouse wheel, but not the form view.. Can anyone recommend a way to get my form view zooming properly without rebuilding it as a new project?
Interesting additional info: I was able to run the app, and even though the controls were sized properly according to the properties window, when it ran they were all too large, with the exception of the datagridview that is dynamically sized within the code. I hope that is a useful clue.
Maybe the form's font is too large.
This issue is too strange to solve, folks. After running the program as described above, I began re-entering the sizes for the controls on the affected form, even though they appeared to be correct. While I was doing this the application shut itself down with no error message. When I re-started VS2022 and loaded the applicastion, this time the properties window showed that the controls and the form itself were roughly 10 times as large as they had started out exce;pt for the ones whose sizes I had re-entered. All other windows except for the design window of the affected form then displayed the % zoom in the lower left corner. I am currently rebuilding that form.
The moral of the story is: If you are likely to fall asleep at your desk, stay clear of the keyboard. Thanks to those who took the trouible to scratch their heads on this one.