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Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:08 pm**

Hello-

I am trying to open my plugin's forms in the VS 2022 designer but am having issues. The project builds and runs OK but I can't open any forms in the designer. I'm targeting x86.

For example:

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Could not find type 'OpenDental.UI.GridOD' Please make sure that the assembly that contains this type is referenced

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Could not find type 'OpenDental.UI.SignatureBoxWrapper'  etc.

I've tried cleaning the solution, ditching the /bin and /obj folders, closing and reopening VS but nothing seems to work.

Incidentally, I have the same problems with OD Forms. For example, if I try to open FormAbout.cs in the designer, I get

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The control OpenDental.FormODBase has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Could not load file or assembly 'OpenDentBusiness, Version=22.4.21.0. The system cannot find the file specified.

Any suggestions?

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:13 pm**

Hmmmm....works now.

The build order got messed up somehow so right clicked on the project, then Build dependencies, then fixed the build dependencies for each item (OpenDental, OpenDentBusiness, Plugin)

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:16 pm**

Well, that didn't last long.

The problem appears to be with the build target.

If I change the target to 'Any CPU' the designer problems go away.

However, when I try to run in the Debugger, it throws a bad image format exception related to VirtualWeb.dll and quits. It will run in the Debugger if the target is x86, but then I have the designer problem all over again.

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System.BadImageFormatException
  HResult=0x8007000B
  Message=Could not load file or assembly 'VirtualWeb, Version=22.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
  Source=<Cannot evaluate the exception source>
  StackTrace:
<Cannot evaluate the exception stack trace>

So is there a 64 bit version of VirtualWeb.dll?

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:38 pm**

At least I'm not alone

https://developercommunity.visualstudio ... -d/1601210

Is VirtualWeb.dll provided by Cybelesoft or is it an OD in-house product?

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:10 pm**

We have just been getting used to editing designer changes in Any CPU (64-bit) mode and running the program in x86 mode (since we are still a 32-bit application).

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