Form.cs file is opening in text box with unreadable form

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I was working on a desktop app in VS2012. Suudenly there was a power failure, when I restarted the computer and opened mainform.cs file in a textbox I see unreadable data in it. It looks like following. , $ H l H $ € D €ì $ ¼ ì
, € P T D Ô °

Backup was not set and the file is main form for the app. Does anyone have an idea how to recover the file?

Are you talking about opening the file `mainform.cs` in Visual Studio and your code is all garbled? — Jeff B, Jan 31 '14 at 17:35
@JeffBridgman Yes. it is all garbage and visual studio is giving errors on this garbage. — THunter, Jan 31 '14 at 17:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Check Recovering file from the Visual Studio document cache?, its a different cause but the indicated location might have the backup you need. If not and you don't have any backup or are using some sort of source control i am afraid you'll have to redo all your code.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jan 31 '14 at 18:23

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i got it by opening properties of the folder and selected previous versions. got a backup from there – THunter Jan 31 '14 at 21:51

Form.cs file is opening in text box with unreadable form

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