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Cannot drag (move) controls in designer - control is deleted on drag operation.

I cannot drag (move) ANY control on a design surface in the designer. If I move one pixel from the current location, the control is deleted from the designer and code-behind removes the traces of the control as well. This actually happens in the web designer as well, not sure why this is happening and it's EXTREMELY frustrating. The only way to move controls is by keyboard or by resizing the control to move its borders. Please help.

Roy Hodges Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:04 AM

The same problem I have been facing, that would I solved by resting the visual studio environment as default.

Click on Tool menu bar and then on import export setting and reset all setting as default

Try that one and restart the visual studio it may solve your problem.

Marked As Answer byZhi-Xin YeMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, August 04, 2009 3:05 AM

Malik M.Shahid Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:20 AM

The same problem I have been facing, that would I solved by resting the visual studio environment as default.

Click on Tool menu bar and then on import export setting and reset all setting as default

Try that one and restart the visual studio it may solve your problem.

Marked As Answer byZhi-Xin YeMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, August 04, 2009 3:05 AM

Malik M.Shahid Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:20 AM

Hi Roy,

Have you tried reset the Visual Studio settings? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms247075(VS.80).aspx ).

Best Regards,
Zhi-Xin

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