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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Corrupt Properties Designer in Visual Studio 2005

I spent a few days troubleshooting why I my properties file in my Visual Studio 2005 Windows-Based Forms application seemed to be corrupted. When I right-clicked on my project and selected "properties", I the properties designer window would appear for a second and then disappear.

Right-clicking on the properties folder and clicking properties would give me an "Invalid pointer" error. This seemed to happen after I did a ClickOnce deploy to a web server and closed my solution.

Solution
It turns out the problem is related to the Microsoft Source Code Analysis Tool for C#. I also have ReSharper 4.1 installed. I discovered this forum post that recommend I uninstall the MS Source Code Analysis tool. Turns out this solved my problem too.

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