Help!!!! where's the design tab?

[cuszim]

im a noob to visual basic 2008 and somehow managed to close my design tab and now i cannot find it anywhere, its not on the bar on the right hand side????does anyone know how to help me?????thanks in advance

 

[JohnH]

Familiarize yourself with the Solution Explorer and the main menu options. To show the designer for a form select the form in Solution Explorer and select View Designer (main View menu, or with context menu in Solution Explorer). Double-clicking the node in Solution Explorer has the same effect.

 

[arijit08.b]

when your VB 2008 is open, press SHIFT+F7...

another method is : ALT+V, ALT+D...

yet another method is : Go to the View menu and click on Designer, duh...

 

[frogitts]

All of those solutions sound great in theory, but none of them work for me, and I have the same problem. I created a form, designed a window, and when I opened it up again the design window was nowhere to be seen. I'm new to this IDE and Visual Basic, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing (self-teaching, you know how that goes, especially with a hobby like programming). Anyone care to tell me why nothing happens when I press Shift+F7 or double click the node in the solution explorer, and why I don't have a designer option in my view menu or in the context menu when clicking on my form in the solution explorer?

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

All of those solutions sound great in theory, but none of them work for me, and I have the same problem. I created a form, designed a window, and when I opened it up again the design window was nowhere to be seen. I'm new to this IDE and Visual Basic, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing (self-teaching, you know how that goes, especially with a hobby like programming). Anyone care to tell me why nothing happens when I press Shift+F7 or double click the node in the solution explorer, and why I don't have a designer option in my view menu or in the context menu when clicking on my form in the solution explorer?

It might be that you're trying to open a class in the form designer which wont work if it doesn't have the *.designer.vb file for the designer to use. This is just a guess without knowing more about what you're trying to open.

 

[frogitts]

Well, the problem in my case might have been that I was adding code to the *.designer.vb file instead of to the *.vb file. I don't know why I was doing that - I added a button, double clicked it to add code, and that's where it had me adding code. I recreated the project from scratch and I now can access the design mode.