Oversized Windows CE forms in Visual Studio 2008 - c#

I'm developing a Windows CE CF3.5 application under Visual Studio 2008, everything went smooth until the designer started throwing a NullReferenceException. Restarted VS2008, rebooted Win7 and the exception disappeared but all the forms for the project I was working on and new projects that I tested have this aspect:
On the emulator it varies, it either appears really tiny in the upper left corner or it displays correctly:
Any ideas? I've googled for this to no success. Thanks in advance!

In the solution explorer, expand your form and open the Form.Designer.cs file.
Have a look and try altering the AutoScale and AutoScaleDimensions properties

Like every good programmer you use some kind of Source Control (VSS, SVN, Git, etc.).
So simply make a diff of your current not working version and your last working one and see what changed.

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New Solution Open Form1.cs code view only
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Took me a while, but...
Apparently, according to this page, you can bring up form designer in the following mysterious steps:
In the Solution Explorer, look for the head toolbar,
Find the icon that looks like an empty HTML tag: <>
When you click it, it will disappear, which makes no sense, but then,
Your plus signs (tree expand buttons) on the left side of the files will be gone too - that's a good sign:
Now you can doubleclick on your Form1 (or whatever it's called),
And after a few seconds of thinking, it will open the Form Designer.
Why this?... I literally have zero idea. But it worked for me.
Maybe tomorrow I'll find out more about this and yes I promise to come back and update - until then, just follow this little yellow brick road. I hate the fact that in 2021 some of the modern tools require dark sorcery to operate on a basic level, but hey. We're in this together.
Good luck!
This thread is the first when requesting "c# visual studio 2019 cannot open designer", so the solution may be useful for those who have encountered an error when the WinForms constructor stopped opening in VS2019.
The screenshot shows the steps to DISPLAY the ERROR that caused WinForm to stop displaying
I found this trick worked for me:
Right click your project in Solution Explorer and select 'Unload Project' from the context menu (near the bottom).
Right click again and select 'Load Project'
Now when you double click on your form class, it opens in the design editor

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My laptop however uses visual studio 2015. If I just open the project on my laptop and run it, everything is fine. However the slightest change to the form (IE anything that causes it to save?) and when I run the application half my controls now anchor off the right hand side of the screen and are out of view.
I can restore the project back to working by replacing Form1.designer file with the original from my zip and rebuilding - but again any changes after that break it in the same way. The bizarre thing is the form looks absolutely perfect IN the designer, both when opened and unchanged and after changing regardless of how it looks when the program is executing.
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I've recently updated the version of VS from 2013 to 2015. I work on WPF and obviously, I have to modify *.xaml files; every time I leave a .xaml file Visual Studio freezes for about 15-20 seconds. I cannot work like that! I've uninstalled Reshaper, but no change. I've closed even the designer process, but still - no success.
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Station details:
12 GB RAM,
i7 2.5GHz,
SSD,
Windows 10 x64
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It is not a plugin problem, VS2015 seems a little buggy to me. You can update to the latest version (Update 3), which works much better for me.
I think the problem is that VS added support for many different frameworks in a short amount of time. It's normal that the version is buggy, but I'm sure they will solve it with the updates.
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right click on a XAML file
select Open with...
select Source Code (Text) editor
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If you need designer later, you can open in designer mode by selecting XAML Designer or Automatic Editor Selector.
"was having similar issue with 2015 pro. During the simplest of changes it would take forever. What I did was go under debug\options\web forms designer\ (turned off refactoring). This solved all my issues, not there is no delay while working, only when I do a build or switch to another section or form, it will write all changes at once."
source: http://blog.geocortex.com/2007/12/07/slow-visual-studio-performance-solved/

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It all seems to be coming from this platform issue. I have had zero issues in the past. I cannot find any information on how to fix this. I even go to open the designer on a file that previously worked (pre VS2012 install) and that fails.
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I'm familiar with this error from Visual Studio but I was just wondering if there's a simple way to change the target platforms so I can see the design view in Blend?
I know there have been problems with blend for VS 2012 up until now, but I thought maybe this was an easy one to fix that I'm missing somewhere.
If anyone knows a way to fix this I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Close Blend
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(The Project does not save when you run!)
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That's it!
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