Jan said:
I closed the [design] tab for a form, but I don't know how to reopen it.
Only the code is showing in the solution explorer. Can somebody helps me.
Thanks.
When you are working on a Windows Form, there are 3 files that are created:
Form1.vb, Form1.Designer.vb, and Form1.resx.
With Form1.vb, you can work on it in either "Design" view (and the tab at
the top of the editor will say "Form1.vb [Design]" or "Code" view (by
right-clicking the form and choosing "View Code"). If Form1.vb is not open
at all, you can just double-click it from the Solution Explorer to open it
up in "design" view.
The other two files (Form1.Design.vb and Form1.resx) are files that are
automatically created and updated by Visual Studio and are normally hidden
from view because there really isn't anything that a developer should be
doing to these files directly. If you want to see these files, you'll have
to tell Visual Studio to show them to you by clicking the second button in
the Solution Explorer, which is the "Show All Files" button. But again, you
are not supposed to be editing these files directly and doing so can corrupt
your form.
-Scott
