How to easily duplicate a Windows Form in Visual Studio?

Question

How can I easily duplicate a C#/VB Form in Visual Studio? If I copy & paste in the Solution Explorer, it uses the same class internally and gets messed up. How do you do it?

Answer 1

• Save the all project
• Right click in the Solution Explorer (SE), "Copy"
• Right click on the project name in the SE (this is the first line), "Paste". It will create a "Copy of .....vb" form
• Right click on this new form in SE, "View code", and change its class name to the name, that you wanna use for the Form
• Left click on the new form in SE and rewrite its name for the one, that you used in the class name (and .vb in the end)
• Build - if it has no error, you win! :)