command line compiling screws up my forms

[qmp]

After I use the command line builder

 

devenv /rebuild release "myproj\myproj.csproj"

or even

devenv /rebuild release "myproj\myproj.prj"

 

Next time I open up that project in dev studio none of my forms work. They only open up in code editor, not form designer..

 

How do I fix this?

[Robby]

Do the forms contain embedded controls? If so, are the other assemblies being modified between builds?

[Wraith]

commandline builds with devenv seem to break the metadata store that the UI uses keep track of the type of things. Until the IDE is forced to re-touch the files and update that database the wrong icons will be used on the class/file views and sometime i've found things won't compile cleanly.

Its a pain in the arse but you need to go through and make it reparse each code file in the solution.

[qmp]

I found the fix to be to erase the .projdata file in /obj/release after my compile script.