<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Vic</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">make certain that they chose windows form - it is not always in teh same spot as before</div><div class="">make sure that they did not delete the very first line of code that makes it a form or the very last line of code - a frequent error ( the last line that is),</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if they did they can often copy all of the code into a new windows form and SOMETIMES that is enough - be careful that if the first line of form is still there that it is not duplicated</div><div class="">sometimes they delete the resource file - cause they do not know what it is</div><div class="">sometimes they only backup form not the resource and then they choose to use the backup not the PROJECT</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to back up: the project must be closed, then copied — the WHOLE project folder (use meaningful project names)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">do they have backups and versions?</div><div class="">teach about version control, back up , backup with another name, testing of backups, back up to a usb stick, etc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope that they stop randomly deleting lines in teh code</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">make them start again more carefully</div><div class="">They certainly do it a lot quicker on the third time through and rarely make the wsiwyg go away after three attempts !! (well my students got better anyway)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrew Shortell</div><div class="">(No where)</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Mar 2018, at 3:43 pm, Victoria Farrell <<a href="mailto:farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au" class="">farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi! I needs some assistance with the new VS 17. I'm struggling to find a solution to a common problem where the design view of forms disappears and we can only see the code that runs it. The solution will run ok, but the WYSIWYG design view disappears. Not all students are experiencing it, but enough of them to make it frustrating for them to have to restart their interface designs.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm starting to suspect there may be issues running the solutions across the network. I never had these issues in 2013 or 2015 which I have used in the past.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any suggestions would be very welcome - I've googled my fingers to the bone on this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks so much,</div><div class="">Vic<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4CjWh8BUhIbVjFjVmZSeUFIRGc&revid=0B4CjWh8BUhIbUkNaS2VNTVpNYW9SS2J3MFBSUmtkbkl6U1JJPQ" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Victoria Farrell</b><br class="">Head of Technology Department </span></i></p><p style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" class="">St Kevin's College</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" class=""><br class=""><i class="">P 03 9832 4980</i></span></p><p class=""><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class=""><i class="">E <a href="mailto:farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au" target="_blank" class="">farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au</a></i></span></font></p><p class=""><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class=""><i class=""><a href="http://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/16539" target="_blank" class="">Tennis 6ths Gold</a></i></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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