Hi team,
I've run into an infuriating problem. I can't select the controls I've placed on a form.
Background :
I've designed a truly simple form with a few Infragistic controls on it, namely the grid, a tabcontrol, a splitter and, a explorerbar and a panel.
After having tinkered about with it, I saved it, and a few days later I came back to the project and everything seemed ok except:
1) can select individual controls - just the entire form
2) adding a new form and then a wingrid to it, the wingrid dissappears!
3) the program runs fine
I don't have this issue in other projects.
Please advice.
Cheers,
Arne
Hi Arne,
I am just checking if you got this worked out or you still require any assistance or clarification on the matter.
Sincerely,DimiDeveloper Support Engineer, MCPD Infragistics, Inc.www.infragistics.com/support
Hi, I have a similar problem. Not sure when this happen, after installing 13.1 from 12.2 and updated the projects references to the (version free) infragistics dll, we no longer able to select Infragistics controls when using Visual Studio 2012 (update 4) designer.
It is the exact behavior described on this stackoverflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16320746/cannot-select-infragistics-controls-in-winform-designer
On my machine, I have both 12.2 and 13.1 installed. They are both in the GAC. When I create a new window form or edit an existing one, whenever I drag an Infragistic Control, say UltraButton, from the VS toolbox to the designer, it will disappear. For existing window form, I can see the Infragistics controls, but I can't be select them using the mouse.
In addition, we used to reference the Infragistics dll in a common library folder, I tried to switch to using the GAC instead, that didn't help. We are hoping to use the (version free) dlls, so that upgrading to the next version of Infragistics would be easier. However, it seems like the designer just doesn't work.
The only way I can use Infragistics control is start a brand new project, and reset the VS toolbox, but this isn't going to work for our existing projects.
Ok, I have reference all of the project files in the solution to point to the versioned dll files and restarted VS. The Infragistics controls now works now in VS Designer.
My guess is that Visual Studio Designer can't support dlls outside of the GAC. Maybe it is possible to add the version free dll to the GAC in order to get the designer to work.
Hello Dicksum,
I am also facing the same issue, All of our Infragistics control are not selectable at the design time. Earlier we were using Infragistics 8.1 and now we updated to 13.1. Until 8.1 in VS 2008 it was working fine. Now in 13.1 I am not able to edit or even select the Infragistics control in VS 2012. I read in some article that it needs to point to the installed path, but that also didn't work, in my system it is installed in below path..
C:\Program Files (x86)\Infragistics\NetAdvantage 2013.1\Windows Forms\CLR4.0\Bin
I tried to give the reference to to above path and then page is not opening ion the design mode.
Every single control on the form is not modifiable in the designer except through the Properties window and each control has an icon in the area below (see image) in the section usually reserved for non-visible items (e.g. DataSource). How do I undo this and return the designer to a usable version without wiping it all out and starting over?
Please help, I need to complete some of our priority task and I am completely stuck here.
I had the same problem, all on the same machine, fyi.
I just fixed it by running the Version Utility against my solution, fixed everything up fine it looks like.
After installing NetAdvantage, see if you have this following folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Infragistics\NetAdvantage 2013.1\Windows Forms\CLR4.0\Bin - Signed
These are the dlls that my project references too.
Hi, One more thing, as you mentioned in your post, controls needs to convert 13.1 signed version.. Please can you suggest the steps how can we convert the controls to signed version.
Hello Dickysum,
Thanks for your quick response. Old 8.1 dlls are no longer present in our new system. everywhere it is referenced to 13.1. It absolutely running fine when we run our application.. only the problem is the controls are not selectable in the design time, hence I can not do any design modification.
I am really stuck here. Many article I have gone through and did all the things which is suggested but no luck. I am trying to register the Infragistics dll to GAC, in command prompt it is saying assembly added in cache but I can not see the dll in assembly folder inside windows.
Please help me out to come out from this strange situation.
Thanks,
Mursalin
Hi,
That sounds like a big jump from 8.1 to 13.1. Does your project still reference to any Infragistics 8.1 dlls, or were you able to convert all of the controls to the 13.1 (signed version). If you still have Infragistics 8.1 control, mostly the designer will no longer work with the older. Would the designer work if you add a new project?