My company is working on its first project using the MM framework. My co-worker set up a maintenance form using the MM maintenance template. In the List view tab, he placed an MM grid view anchored to left, right, top and bottom of the tab page. The buttons on the list view are all anchored top and right.

I checked the project out of our source control to make some additional mods to the maintenace form. When I opened the designer view, the grid view had expanded larger right and down than the boundaries of the tab view. All buttons had shifted their Location.X property way right of the tab view dimensions as well. I manually reset the grid to size 100 x 100. I save the solution, closed Visual Studio, and re-opened the solution again. The grid had magically resized itself to 410 x 356. I saved the solution, closed VS, and re-opened the project again. The grid view dimensions had increased to 760 x 612.

My co-worker created this form using the MM .NET 3.5 version with VS 2008 on an XP Pro 32-bit machine. I was running the MM. NET 3.5 with VS 2008 on a WIndows 7 Ultimate 64-bit machine. In trouble-shooting, I have taken the following steps, checking out the entire project from our source control in between each step to guarantee that I am starting with a clean slate:

1. Installed the mid-November MM "hotfix" release in case it somehow addressed some unknown WIn 7 issue.
2. Tried loading the project with the original MM .NET 3.5 build on an XP machine.
3. Tried the XP machine with the "hotfix" MM build.
4. Built a new maintenance form of my own. Same problem resulted.
5. Build a new test project using without MM to see if there was a .NET issue. Resizing problem was not present in the non-MM project.

I think my computer is possessed because, no matter what, I keep getting this darn resize problem. Meanwhile my co-worker can't reproduce it. Does anyone have any ideas what's going on here?