You can stand your ground without losing your temper.

Judging by haircuts, 1970 *was* part of the 60's. And 1980 was part of the 70's. Take a look at a music video from 1970, or 1980, and you'll see.

I've run into the opposite problem - Technically brilliant, but lacking management skills. The best developer gets promoted to be the manager, because he's such a great developer. But he doesn't have the organizational skills, and the people skills to be in that role. The required skills for development lead, versus developer are very different. So now you have an ineffective manager, and you've lost your best developer. Has anyone else encountered this?

I bike to work twice a week (19 miles each way). That's summer only, though, as I won't have enough light within a few weeks.

That was silly.

You can remove the blue border at the top by selecting None for FormBorderStyle in the visual designer. If you don't like the way that looks, there are several other choices.

Thanks for the reply. I do remember this happening when I've used sourcesafe in the past, but we are using svn. And just to clarify, this is a windows form. Thanks.

I have a windows form that inherits numerous controls from a parent form. Whenever I open the child form in the designer, I immediately get an asterisk that the file has unsaved changes, before I have changed anything. When I look at the .designer.cs file, numerous lines have been added, such as below:

Infragistics.Win.Appearance appearance1 = new Infragistics.Win.Appearance();
Infragistics.Win.Appearance appearance2 = new Infragistics.Win.Appearance();
// other designer code that was there before
this.ultraGridValidator.DisplayLayout.Appearance = appearance1;
...

And numerous lines have changed throughout the designer file (mostly locations and sizes):

this.configTab.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(766, 295); // just the numbers have changed

When I open the base form in the designer, I get the asterisk, but usually nothing has changed. Sometimes locations / sizes have changed, even though I haven't moved anything. Obviously we're using Infragistics, but I don't know if that's the cause of the problem. I only suspect it because most of the lines added are related to the grid. I am also suspicous of the toolbar we recently added, just because of the timing. I have read msdn articles regarding problems with editing complex controls on inherited forms, but we're not trying to edit anything. We're just trying to keep things from randomly changing! Has anyone seen anything like this? And any suggestions on how to fix it? It's killing productivity on our gui. This is .NET 2.0 with Infragistics 6.1. I tried the latest VS service pack, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.