Disappearing Controls from Form

[T Jenniges]

I know I've seen this bug posted a long time ago but now it is happening in VS .NET 2003 (I was hoping MS was going to fix this problem with the .NET 2003 release). The Problem: ------------ The IDE (Designer) removes custom controls from my form(s). The custom controls reside in their own project libraries and the forms that use them in seperate libraries. This control removal by the IDE usually happens when the referenced control library DLL doesn't build without errors but sometimes even happens when it builds successfully. It seems that I can go months between incidents like this. Another developer I know has the same intermittent problem but has no solution. It seems the designer thinks it's alright to remove the code in the "InitializeComponent" method if it can't find a reference (assembly) to the custom control. Background: ----------- - I have a large project consisting of 6 libraries (some class libs, some control libs). The main project references the assembly DLL's of these other projects. - StarTeam is the source control software. Question: --------- Does anyone know or heard any work-arounds for this?