Hi

I've got a Popupcontainercontrol that I'm using within the editor of a grid. I put a layoutcontrol within the container, and then put a few buttons and textedits in it. However, suddenly, I can't see the control at design time. It's there to select in VS2005's Properties toolbox, so I can modify its various properties, but I can't see it to be able to drag more controls onto it for example.

It's not a "Bring to Front" issue, I've changed the size/location etc using the Properties window, but I just can't see it. Its borders are not highlighted when I select the control in the Properties listbox like one would expect. It's just completely invisible at design time.  At run time, it works exactly like it's supposed to.

As a test, I even deleted all the remaining controls on my XtraForm to no avail. The PopupContainerControl still exists, but remains lost somewhere.

This is probably the 2nd or 3rd time I'm noticing such a thing when using DevExpress controls (not just popupcontainercontrol) - does anyone else have this problem? Any idea how to solve it? A workaround is to create another popupcontainercontrol and migrate all the designer code for my previous popupcontainercontrol to the new one, but that's messy and not really a solution.

Perhaps it's an XtraForm problem?

I can't really reproduce the problem as it's a random occurrence. I've tried closing and reopening Visual Studio and the solution etc.

Any help will be much appreciated - the control itself is great but this is getting a little frustrating!

I replaced my existing PopupContainerControl with another one. And it has just disappeared as well. It's there in some sort of a zombie state, I can't see it or touch it or feel it in design time, but it's there and I can modify all its properties and it works......But if I wanted to add a control to it, I will not be able to without playing with designer code. 

 Anyone got any ideas on this? It's beginning to get annoying....is it just my Visual Studio that is messed up?

 I believe the PopupContainerControl is designed not to be visible, at run-time or design-time.  I can only find one that I have in a form designer because I have placed another control, like a tree list, within it.

Still, I would hope that when you select the PopupContainerControl in the Visual Studio Properties list, its outline should be visible within the designer.