Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:21 AM
Lately the Visual Studio 2005 Designer drives me crazy.
When I worked with multiple Forms and Custom User Controls, it took just a while and I could not open the Design View anymore.
Switching to the Design view, brought up a friendly error message:
Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information
First hit at google brings you to Microsoft support, where you can order an hotfix to correct this problem. The hotfix patches the Microsoft.visualstudio.design.dll.
If you look for other workarounds most people suggest restarting Visual Studio or Clean & Rebuild your solution with all Forms closed.
However, I found one interesting piece of information over at Rupreet’s Weblog:
I believe the problem is caused by the Indexing Service locking the obj and bin files, trying to reindex their contents. Simply select your Projects folder in Explorer, go to Properties..., click the Advanced button and disable the checkbox to allow the indexing of the folder and subdirectories and files
Let’s see if this is actually true. It would be great.
Does anyone has ordered and applied the hotfix yet? Or any other experience how to handle this annoyance ?