Visual Studio 2008 Winform designer fails to load Form which inherits from generic class

Question

i have a winforms project, and i created a class on assembly A that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form to serve as a base class for variou

Answer 1

It's a known limitation. Basically you can work around this by declaring another class that inherits from the generic class.

For instance:

class Generic<T> : UserControl
{
}

then

class GenericInt : Generic<int> { }

then use GenericInt instead of Generic. SUcks I know.