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Visual Studio ate my toolbar, I opened a solution for a project I've been working on for a few months, and the toolbar has 135 buttons on it, and while it was loading, the whole toolbar flickered like it was trying to give me a seizure or something, and then it dissappeared. Now when I click Debug, it won't let me do it because all the resources are missing!?

I'm using:

Visual Studio 2010 C# Express Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

I have searched Google and found nothing related. I'm hoping that Visual Studio can also somehow make bowel movements so I can find those missing resources and put everything back together again, but I don't think that's a likely scenario...

Has anybody ever experienced this before, and if so, are there any updates/fixes for this?

Georg Fritzsche
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    This sounds as if you do not have a *version control system*? I hope you can recover your toolbar ... but honestly - don't ever risk the work *of months* and install a *version control system* asap – tanascius May 06 '10 at 08:01
  • Thanks for the advice. Googling now ;) –  May 06 '10 at 08:07
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    Or just look on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3859/what-is-the-difference-between-all-the-different-types-of-version-control – tanascius May 06 '10 at 08:09
  • Hmmm... Interesting link, thanks. I'm checking a few of them out. First ones are Visual Source Safe and Git. –  May 06 '10 at 08:11

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  • First of all - shame on you for not having a backup or better using source control. Who basically cares whetehr you lost the current work, if your last working state is an "undo checkout" away.

  • Second, your toolbar is code. Look into the code behind file. Find out what is wrong there / missing there. Comment parts out until it works again, then slowly uncomment them until you find the wrong issue ;)

TomTom
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  • Ahhh, yummy answer. Thank you! Will accept once the 10min period is over. It doesn't let me accept straight away anymore. –  May 06 '10 at 08:07
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I also experiment these situation. And the problem is Visual Studio.

When you add controls (ex. button, drop down buttons), Visual Studio has make code (automatically).

Add, Modify, Add, Remove, Add, Modify

Too many times work has going on, then Visual Studio has delete AddRange(...) function.

: toolStrip1.Items.AddRange(...);

If this code was deleted, it seems like new toolStrip(just like you project)

So, I say, Create New Project and add toolStrip1, some buttons and Now comparing your project source code (in design.cs file).

j0k
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