I saw another post on the following VS 2005 bug -- but itwas forthe express edition...

It appears grid/guide toggling in the WinForm designeris simply broken in VS2005. The only way to toggle the grid is to go tothe Options dialog and change 'LayoutMode' to/from 'SnapToGrid'. Then exit / restart VS2005.

The Toggle Grid / Toggle Guides buttons on the Dialog Editor toolbar never become enabled. Similarly, I've added menu items to the Format menusuch as"Guide Settings..." and these never become enabled. (Also, the Tab Order button works on the Layout toolbar, but Tab Order menu item I added to the Fromat menu never becomes enabled.)

I've investigated this on three different VS 2005 installations with consistent results. I've also tried both existing VS2003 projects and new VS2005 projects.

Are other VS2005 usersseeing this behavior? Am I missing some new trick / gotcha with WinFroms in VS2005? Or is ths just a real (and rather obvious) bug in the VS2005 IDE?

Bill Griffis

Any update on this, I've just noticed, after viewing an MS nugget, that these layout guidelines exist but I cannot enable them. The do not appear off the format menu and they are disabled via the Dialog Editor Toolbar?

The grid options are activated throughthe Tools-Options-Window Forms Designer menuitem.

Please noteentry 89577 at the Feedback center:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=89577

It notes that if you "close the designer, and then reopen it the gridlines should appear".

This behaviour is difficult to explain to the users of my designer.Until I come up with something better I have resorted to adding a comment to my Tools-Options dialog that says "Layout mode changes take effect the next time a form is opened".