What is the best way to copy or cut/past a form from one Project to another Project within a Solution in Visual Studio?
Whenever I try it, using the solution explorer (drag and drop or right clicking cut and past), it only copies the underlying C# code and not the necessary 'bits and pieces' that help you visualise the form via the form designer.
Are you selecting the file, or using the designer to "Copy" all of the controls? Selecting the YourForm.cs file in the Solution Explorer and copying it via copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop to your other project should accomplish what you need.
Make sure that you copy not only the Form.cs, but also the Form.designer.cs and Form.resx files.
But I need to ask why you would want to maintain a copy of the same form in multiple projects within the same solution. Sounds as if you might want to generalize the code in it, put it in a class library and re-use it in the places where it is applicable.
Use ReSharper (get the demo), right-click the class in Code View, Refactor->Move, and move it to another project.
The added benefit is that if you change the namespace by moving it between projects, it'll auto-update all references.
Figured it out - knew it would be something daft.
Apparently the target project should have the references:
System.Windows.Forms System.Drawing
included within the project FIRST before you do any copy or pasting or else you will get the problem I described.
Thanks for anyone who tried to help BTW.