I downloaded .NET 1.1, and before installing it I uninstalled .NET 1.0.
When I started Visual Studio, it couldnt find the .NET compiler. So I
uninstalled 1.1, reinstalled 1.0, and then reinstalled 1.1.
Visual Studio kept on using the .NET 1.0 DLLs. I need to use the new forms
dll, so I removed the reference to the old one and added the new one. Now
everything works fine, but when I try to edit the form in the form designer I
get this error:

An error ocurred while loading the document. Fix the error, and then try
loading the document again. The error message follows:
myform --- The base class 'System.Windows.Forms.Form' cannot be designed.

What is happening? When I go back to the old 1.0 system.windows.forms.dll
the Form Designer works again. It sounds like .NET 1.1 isnt installing
correctly, but it installs fine every time. I need some serious Microsoft
help please.

Thanks,
Nate

You didn't specify which version of Visual Studio you are using, but it
sounds like you have v7.0, which requires the .NET Framework v1.0. There
is no design-time support in v7.0 for .NET Framework 1.1; you'll have to
use Visual Studio 7.1 for that.

hth

-Joel
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Thank you so much, that was it. I have visual basic .net version 7.

They might want to add that requirement to the 1.1 download page at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/framework1_1/

I just breezed throught the download assuming it would work. It actually
does work, I successfully used the new browseforfolder object in my visual
studio version 7, it just wouldnt let me edit the form.

Thanks again,
Nate