For some reason most of the design-time properties on my calendar just "disappears" (see attached picture) after a while even without me touching them. Great control, but we cant use it keeps locking up like this..

From the picture you have attached I deduce you are using VS 2005. The PocketPlanner for .NET Compact Framework v.2 comes with an additional dll, called 'PocketPlanner.PocketPC.asmmeta.dll'. This dll contains only design-time information and is crucial for the proper behavior of the control in the IDE designer. It looks like that for some reason this dll is not found by the environment and all the design-time support is lost.

What I can advice you to do, is to double-check whether the dll is present in the same directory with PocketPlanner.dll. And if that the case, you can try installing the metadata dll in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), which is usually located in <windowsDir>\assembly\.

Let me know if this helps.

Meppy

We also tend to get

System.NotSupportedException was unhandled
Message="System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo"
 
exeption in
      this.calendar1.DateTimeFormat = ((System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo)(resources.GetObject("calendar1.DateTi
meFormat")));

while trying to start the app

did not help  ???

But if I add a new calendar to the same project (acually the same form) it works just fine. Unfortuantly this is not a good fix for the problem since it keeps happening all the time, and that new calendar is probably just going to lastst for a few hours at best.

Unfortuantly I cant send you the application, but if it continues I will create a new application, mess a bit around width it and send you the project when it breaks.

It does however seem like I have found a "solution" for it, if I delete [i]

this.calendar1.DateTimeFormat = ((System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo)(resources.GetObject("calendar 1.DateTimeFormat")));  [/i]

from the designer.cs it will work again, but the properties is usally a mess, so i end up having to set them again allmoast from scratch every time the calendar locks up.

We found the problem, two computers with pocket planner installed (in slightly different directories) and source-control with the help of source-control visual studio messed up a path in the solution file

We disabled the design-time serialization of this property some time ago because the Compact Framework fails to deserialize it at run time. If you have the most recent version of PocketPlanner, try deleting this line and run the application again.

Regards,
Meppy

We disabled code generation for this property in one of the later releases.

What version of PocketPlanner are you using and what version of the CompactFramework?

Thank you,
Meppy