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Error when adding a ToolStripMenuItem [modified]

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    I am having trouble adding a ToolStripMenuItem but I do not know why. I have so far added many ToolStripMenuItems as follows: File New Save Save As Print Close Format Font Colour Help Contents Index Search About I want to add 3 more items under the Format menu, these being: Bold, Italic, Underlined. Each time I click on the drop down menu at design time and type Bold where it says 'Type Here' and then click away (This menu item with the text Bold should be saved) but the new menu item disappears as though I have not typed anything. When I try to type Bold again this error appears in a dialog box: The control System.Windows.Forms.TextBox has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Stack trace: I then get an error from Visual Studio saying: Microsoft Visual Studio has encounted a problem and needs to close. Also in this dialog box, there are 3 buttons, Debug, Send Error Report and Don't Send. Can anyone advise me as to what is going wrong when I try to add a ToolStripMenuItem? Lucy

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      I am having trouble adding a ToolStripMenuItem but I do not know why. I have so far added many ToolStripMenuItems as follows: File New Save Save As Print Close Format Font Colour Help Contents Index Search About I want to add 3 more items under the Format menu, these being: Bold, Italic, Underlined. Each time I click on the drop down menu at design time and type Bold where it says 'Type Here' and then click away (This menu item with the text Bold should be saved) but the new menu item disappears as though I have not typed anything. When I try to type Bold again this error appears in a dialog box: The control System.Windows.Forms.TextBox has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Stack trace: I then get an error from Visual Studio saying: Microsoft Visual Studio has encounted a problem and needs to close. Also in this dialog box, there are 3 buttons, Debug, Send Error Report and Don't Send. Can anyone advise me as to what is going wrong when I try to add a ToolStripMenuItem? Lucy

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      Perhaps its just some bug, or visual studio hates you. Try adding the menu in the code, rather than the designer. It shouldn't be hard to figure out how, there's already at least 15 examples. Once youv'e added it, go back to the designer and see what it does, if it still comes up with the error then i can see your going to have alot of fun. If not, then i guess you can forget about it.

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        I am having trouble adding a ToolStripMenuItem but I do not know why. I have so far added many ToolStripMenuItems as follows: File New Save Save As Print Close Format Font Colour Help Contents Index Search About I want to add 3 more items under the Format menu, these being: Bold, Italic, Underlined. Each time I click on the drop down menu at design time and type Bold where it says 'Type Here' and then click away (This menu item with the text Bold should be saved) but the new menu item disappears as though I have not typed anything. When I try to type Bold again this error appears in a dialog box: The control System.Windows.Forms.TextBox has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Stack trace: I then get an error from Visual Studio saying: Microsoft Visual Studio has encounted a problem and needs to close. Also in this dialog box, there are 3 buttons, Debug, Send Error Report and Don't Send. Can anyone advise me as to what is going wrong when I try to add a ToolStripMenuItem? Lucy

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        What version of Visual Studio are you running?

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          What version of Visual Studio are you running?

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          I am using Visual Studio 2005. Yes I can add the menu item into the code easily and with no errors. Lucy

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            I am having trouble adding a ToolStripMenuItem but I do not know why. I have so far added many ToolStripMenuItems as follows: File New Save Save As Print Close Format Font Colour Help Contents Index Search About I want to add 3 more items under the Format menu, these being: Bold, Italic, Underlined. Each time I click on the drop down menu at design time and type Bold where it says 'Type Here' and then click away (This menu item with the text Bold should be saved) but the new menu item disappears as though I have not typed anything. When I try to type Bold again this error appears in a dialog box: The control System.Windows.Forms.TextBox has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Stack trace: I then get an error from Visual Studio saying: Microsoft Visual Studio has encounted a problem and needs to close. Also in this dialog box, there are 3 buttons, Debug, Send Error Report and Don't Send. Can anyone advise me as to what is going wrong when I try to add a ToolStripMenuItem? Lucy

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            Is your form's designer file read-only? /ravi

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              Is your form's designer file read-only? /ravi

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              No none of my files are read-only. Lucy

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