Hi, I get the following error when I Rebuild the Solution in Visual Studio: The control WindowsFormsApplication1.MyPanel has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled Here is what I did to get this error: 1) Started a new project and added a new User Control (MyControl) to the solution. 2) Added MyControl in the designer to the Form. 3) Added the following call to Init() method that I implemented in MyControl:

partial class Form1
{
    ....
    private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.myControl1 = new WindowsFormsApplication1.MyControl();
            this.SuspendLayout();
            // 
            // myControl1
            // 
            this.myControl1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(73, 38);
            this.myControl1.Name = "myControl1";
            this.myControl1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(150, 150);
            this.myControl1.TabIndex = 0;
            this.myControl1.Init();
            // 
            // Form1
            // 
            ....

4) Added the following code to MyControl class:

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class MyControl : UserControl
    {
        private Bitmap myImage;
        private Graphics g;

        public MyControl()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public void Init()
        {
            myImage = new Bitmap(Width, Height);
            g = Graphics.FromImage(myImage);
            g.Clear(Color.Sienna);
            g.DrawEllipse(Pens.Red, 0, 0, 50, 50);
            g.Dispose();
        }

        protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnPaint(e);
            e.Graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(myImage, 0, 0);
        }
    }
}

When I run the application, everything works fine. But when I "Rebuild Solution" I got the "unhandled exception in the designer" error. Please help to understand why this is happening. Thanks a lot !

Isn't there an auto-generated comment somewhere around there that says "DONT MODIFY THIS CODE" ?

Good point !
I had a feeling that inserting the Init() call there isn't a good idea, but I couldn't find a better solution.
The problem is that inside OnPaint(..) method of MyControl, myImage should be already initialized according to MyControl's Width and Height.
I tried to do the initialization in Form1_Load, but it's too late (OnPaint of MyControl is called first).
Do you have a better solution ?

By the way, the "Unhandled exception in the designer" error message pointing to this line:

e.Graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(myImage, 0, 0);

saying that myImage is null.
Why is that ??