I have several BOs were I've dropped a component onto the design surface. The component extends the BO and was a very easy way to deal with it.



Today, I was going crazy updating the field descriptors (way cool) and the BOs with these components all broke because the component had been added to the designer file by VS, which of course was rebuilt when the descriptors were changed, and thus my components were gone. I fixed it by simply re-adding the components. But I'm wondering if there is a better way...



So, the question is, what is the best way to deal with this? Avoid components and add/manage them manually? Bug SF to enhance the framework to deal with this? Is there an easier way to do this?



Thanks!