Just got a new machine with Win 8.1 and I am using VS2013. 

Hi Terry,

You need to run VS as an Administrator.  You may also need to modify the DDT application shortcut to also run as Administrator.

I have been using Windows 8.0 and then 8.1 and that is all it required on my system.

Edhy Rijo

Windows 8 and 8.1 have been two of the most annoying releases from Microsoft in quite some time.  Makes me long for the days of Windows XP past.  Microsoft is trying to rid their reputation for being an easy target for viruses.  So to do this, even people logged in AS an administrator have limitations when accessing certain components through applications.

Edhy's solution will work, but remember that when you do this you are actually running as a different user within that application that you are within your Windows session.  So you will lose printer mappings, drive mappings, etc.  You can add them back in while logged in as that user, but this is one thing that does get semi- annoying.  It is also good at losing those settings from time to time.

But it WILL resolve most issues regarding security.

OK now that I have run VS as administrator I seem to be able to run the BOM with no issues. Thanks for forcing me to make sure VS was running as an Admin.

I recreated the form and added all the fields to it at one time and it works fine??????

Hi Terry,

Glad it is working. 

Edhy Rijo

Well it worked if I added every field at one time, BUT if I add some fields and then run the form and then go back and try to add more field it DOES NOT WORK.... I get the errors I posed? Any ideas?

Terry:

Without reproducing the index out of bounds, it is hard to tell you what that could be.  First, make sure that you don't have any query logic in your constructor or something trying to access a database without wrapping it in a test to see if you are in design mode.  I have seen this happen with this message before.

Secondly, I assume that the other two pictures you were referring to had to do with the "#" signs on each side of the text, correct?  This is localization debug mode and shows you all keys that are localized.  You can turn this on and off by setting this property:

MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Localization.DebugMode = true; 

Yes the other pictures are dealing with the # signs showing up. I'll try setting that property and let you know. 

MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Localization.DebugMode = true;