Are you trying to open a Form that was designed in VS2003 from VS2005? There may be problems with doing that. If this is the case, you should migrate your solution from VS2003 to VS2005 first. If that's not the case, then how about a few more details about the form that's causing your problem?

~~Bonnie



>i just installed VS2005 (alongside VS2003) and am getting this error whenever i try and open a form in designer mode :
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>Could not load type Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop IVsRunningDocumentTable2 From assembly Microsoft,VisualStudio. Shell Interop.8.O, Version=8,O.O.O, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03FSI7F11d50a3a.
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>i uninstalled and reinstalled once already
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>tia
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>NIgel