Hello everyone,

First thing I'd like to say is I'm a "new guy".  I have an extensive background in Network Administration in all different levels and currently work as a consultant, but ZERO experience in actually writing VB.  Oh you know, the little script here and there to make windows do what you want it to, but nothing like this.  So a little patience would be appreciated.  :)

I got my DotNetNuke install up and running, but now I want to open it up in Visual studio 2005 and start playing.  So I open Visual Studio 2005 and go to file, open website, and the default.aspx page opens fine, but I try to go to design view and I get the following:

Error Creating Control-Form

Unable to cast opject of type 'System.Web.UI.Design.HtmlIntrinsicControlDesigner' to type 'System.Web.UI.Design.ContorlDesigner'.

I right clicked on the path in Solution Explorer, went to add reference, browsed to all .dll files under bin, selected them all and added them in, but I still get the same error. 

Any thoughts?

There is really no reason to ever make any changes to the default.aspx file or default.aspx.vb.

And you will find that there is actually very little in the default.aspx that you could see in the designer anyway.

Layout changes in DNN should be made in the skin files. And any code changes should be implemented in custom modules.

Westa