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Error connecting to undo manager of source file "whatever designer"

Posted in ASP.NET | Bugs

This error is more than a little irritating, especially considering this is Visual Studio 2005 SP1. I'm getting this, now, for one file, every time I run my application.

The way I "fixed" it was to exclude the file from the Web Application Project, recompile, then re-include, the recompiles.

Seems to me that the error handler that threw this message box should spend more time fixing the problem automatically and less time informing me of a problem I can do little about. Maybe that's just me.

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Posted at 2007-06-14 03:50 PM by Scott
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:22:04 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I get that too, amazingly annoying.

Ayende Rahein

Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:11:46 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

A few times I started a compile and came back and noticed that it stopped because of this stupid message which doesn't seem to affect anything.

Abdu

Friday, June 15, 2007 2:35:51 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I hope the person who have written this piece of code reads your blog... and he's already fixing it! I got it too, and it's irritating!

gloubidou

Friday, June 15, 2007 8:00:24 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

A simpler two-step fix is to:

1) Right-click the designer file and select delete
2) Right-click the aspx file and select Convert to Web Application

I get this frequently too, and I think it stems from some sequence of editing the aspx file while the app is running in debug.