'There is no editor available' error in VS 2010

Question

When I tried to select designer view in VS 2010 I get this error:

There is no editor available for \'c:\\user\\teadrinkinggeek\\documents\\visual

Answer 1

Well I faced the same issue. I right clicked on edmx file and opened it with Entity Data model designer. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

To solve that issue just check your reference and fix those that has "!".

This happened to me also: related/additional notes related to this fix.

Solution Explorer

--> Expand References

--> Right click on the item with "Yellow Triange w/ "!" point"

--> select "Remove"

Open the "Build" Menu at the top

--> select: Rebuild "filename"

Double clicking on the from name in Solution Explorer would then open the from normally for me.

Answer 3

This problem is somewhat difficult to diagnose. The easiest thing is probably to re-install your copy of Visual Studio. Most likely, something got corrupted during the installation, or you failed to install a crucial component required for opening ASPX files.

Aside from that, there is one trick that I've seen work before. I suppose it's worth a try before you go through the trouble of re-installing. Here are the steps:

1. Open a new command prompt window.
2. Navigate to the directory path in which you installed Visual Studio.
   _{(I have no experience with the Express editions, so I'm not sure if the paths and names of the executables are the same as the}
   ^{full versions. I suspect they're probably not. Thus, the best way to get this information is right-clicking on your shortcut icon.}

3. Execute the following command, where "devenv" is the name of the executable you use to start
   the Visual Studio IDE:

   devenv /resetskippkgs
   

Answer 4

Sometimes it happens because one of the references of the project are making problems.

Solution:

Build your solution to Identify the reference that is making problems, remove the reference and add it again, after rebuilding your project everything will work fine.

Answer 5

I tried the devenv /resetskippkgs command with no results. However, after it failed, I played around with the form properties. When I clicked on frmFormName.vb in the Solution Explorer, the properties window showed something different for "build action" than did my other form. I changed this property to "compile" to match my other form. Now, everything is working fine. I hope this helps.

Answer 6

I've also encountered the same problem in Visual Studio 2008. But don't worry folks it's damn simple to solve.

Just follow the simple steps stated as follows:

1. Close all the opened programs on your machine.
2. Go to Command Prompt window
3. Give the following command : c:\program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
4. Now run: devenv /resetskippkgs

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