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When I open a project originally created in Visual Basic 2005 Express with SharpDevelop 2.1.0.2376 and attempt to view a form in Design view, I get the following error:

 Failed to load designer. Check the source code for syntax errors and check all references are available.

Syntax errors in Form1.vb:
-- line 8 col 121: invalid EventMemberSpecifier

The line in question is the following with everything from column 121 and on underlined.

   Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing

If I rename 'Me' to Form1, Design view shows, but SharpDevelop generates errors (as it would in VB) that I need to use 'Me' instead of Form1.

 
Thank you for your time.
 

After days of poking around the forum and the net here is what I found:

1. I found a lot of references on the forum regarding AddHandler.

(Note: It appears to me, although I could be wrong, it is not so much the Handles keyword that is causing the issue, but the Me keyword.  In my original post, I state #D refers to an error at col 121 and if I rename Me to Form1, the Design View shows.)

2. I Googled AddHandler and found the following:

http://www.functionx.com/vbnet/Lesson05.htm

I added this to my code:

Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

#Region "Windows Form Designer Generated Code"

Public Sub New()

MyBase.New()

 

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.

InitializeComponent()

AddHandler Me.Closing, AddressOf Form1_FormClosing

AddHandler Me.Load, AddressOf Form1_Load

AddHandler Me.Resize, Addressof Form1_Resize

End Sub

#End Region

and modified the sub as follows:

Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) 'Handles Me.FormClosing

O.K., after a quick Google, I found this on our Forum:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/11449.aspx

For Visual Basic you'll open your *.vbproj file ( * refers to the name of your VB project).  The post states to find the 'AssemblyVersion' node; I had to correct the 'ApplicationVersion' node. (WARNING: Do not use a word processor to edit the file (I used PSPad which is a good text editor and free).

Thanks, it woked for me as well,

I had to remove the handler on the main form load events too.

Private Sub FMain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)  ' Handles Me.Load

Paolo