Form Settings Not Working

[Chris M]

Hi

I'm using Visual Studio Community 2019 on Windows 10 and I'm having a major problem with Form Settings (in My Project window). It's telling me to 'click here' to create a settings file and doing so throws the following exception:

The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)

I've tried importing an old (Visual Basic Express 2008) settings file and while this partially works - I get the settings I want - it keeps throwing a different exception because it thinks the settings.settings xml is corrupt.

Can anyone help?

Thanks for looking at this,

Chris M

 

[Chris M]

Sorted. Thank you.

Perhaps worth noting that, even though Enable XP visual styles is checked you, unsurprisingly, get Windows 10 styles (e.g., Flat Buttons). Added bonus.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Chris M

 

[JohnH]

"XP styles" sound weird and old these days, I think it is just a historic name and means "current OS theme" today.

 

[Chris M]

Yeah, I take your point. CM