Something has changed in my VS2005 IDE - and I can't figure out what the problem is.

Started a brand new project - simple Windows Form - and added a tab control to it. I can't drap the control around on the screen with the mouse. I can resize with the mouse, and I can use the arrow keys to move the control. When I move the mouse to the top-left corner of the control, I get the nice icon that lets me know I can move the control, but nothing happens if I try!

Attempted the same thing with the split container control - same result. Same with GroupBox and Panel controls as well. Moving simple controls (label, textbox, etc) works fine.

I originally noticed the problem this morning in a fairly large project I'm working on. Thought there might be something corrupt, which is why I tried to (successfully) duplicate the problem in a brand new project. Haven't made any radical system changes. Did get the latest patches from Windows update yesterday afternoon. Can't believe that would cause this, though.

Any ideas?

Didn't have anything to do with the patches. Reinstalled them one-by-one and couldn't duplicate the problem.

There must of been something in Windows itself that was causing the problem (which a reboot solved). I had closed all instances of VS2005 and re-opened VS2005 to see if had been something with the IDE (still had the problem, obviously). A full reboot cleared matters up, though.

Much ado about nothing, I guess...

Just for grins - I uninstalled the 4 Feb 14 updates from Windows Update and the problem went away. I can now move the container controls as expected.

I'll see if I can isolate which particular patch is causing the problem.

Didn't have anything to do with the patches. Reinstalled them one-by-one and couldn't duplicate the problem.

There must of been something in Windows itself that was causing the problem (which a reboot solved). I had closed all instances of VS2005 and re-opened VS2005 to see if had been something with the IDE (still had the problem, obviously). A full reboot cleared matters up, though.

Much ado about nothing, I guess...

I'm having this problem, is there any other information about it you found that you may not have posted? I'm going to look for the patches you mentioned in add/remove programs to see if that helps

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Programmer in Jacksonville, FL