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TabPage selection in Winform Designer

http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic33642.aspx

By RandyJean - 3/12/2026

Has anyone figured out a solution or workaround to not being able to select a StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.TabPage in the Winforms designer.  I can select it from the property sheet but it never becomes active.where I can see/edit the controls.
This is in the latest VS2022 version with the latest StrataFrame V1 assemblies and targeting x64.
Also, if I go into the StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.TabControl properties and try to bring up the TabPages collection dialog I get this error:




By RandyJean - 3/12/2026

So I actually got the TabPage selection to work by removing  <UseWinFormsOutOfProcDesigner>True</UseWinFormsOutOfProcDesigner> from my project.

However, now when I bring up the designer, my toolbar button captions are all messed up.  1 step forward, 2 steps back:



Any thoughts?  I know this has something to do with localization but I'm not sure how to fix.  We're not explicitly using any localization translations or anything like that.