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How to easily duplicate a Windows Form in Visual Studio?

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How can I easily duplicate a C#/VB Form in Visual Studio? If I copy & paste in the Solution Explorer, it uses the same class internally and gets messed up. How do you do it?

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Robin Rodricks Avatar asked Aug 12 '09 20:08

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I usually copy the files in windows explorer, open them up in Notepad/Wordpad and just change the one mention of the class name at the top. Include those files in your project, and you'll be good to go.

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JamesMLV Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 06:10

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