I was working on some resources (icons, bitmaps, etc) that were associated with my main form. Suddenly all of my menu items are not "attached" to my main menu.
I have a MenuStrip called mainMenuStrip on the form, and the instance is still there. In addition I still see references to fileToolStripMenuItem, but it is no longer associated as an item in the mainMenuStrip.
Any ideas as to what happened and or how I can reassociate the items? If I try to add fileToolStripMenuItem, it tells me that I can't name it that because it already exists.

I'd hate to have to get from source control as it's been two days since I checked in.

Hi bpeikes,

You can go the .Designer.cs file and add the items to the MenuStrip in the following way in the InitializeComponent() method:

private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.menuStrip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip();
this.aaaToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.bbbbToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.bbbToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.bbbbToolStripMenuItem1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.aaaToolStripMenuItem1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.bbbbToolStripMenuItem2 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
this.menuStrip1.SuspendLayout();
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// menuStrip1
//
this.menuStrip1.Items.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] {
this.aaaToolStripMenuItem1,
this.bbbbToolStripMenuItem2});
this.menuStrip1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.menuStrip1.Name = "menuStrip1";
this.menuStrip1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(489, 24);
this.menuStrip1.TabIndex = 0;
this.menuStrip1.Text = "menuStrip1";
.....
}


Best Regards,
Zhi-Xin

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That's exactly what I did. I wanted to know what could have caused the problem so I can avoid losing work again.

Which version of Visual Studio do you use?

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