Lightswitch application red x of death

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I created a simple lightswitch application using vb.net. I published and installed this application. I input data and everything worked fine. That is until i decided to go back into visual studio and removed a column due to it being obsolete and pointless to have so I removed it forgetting that I already input data. Now I have a red x that I can not get rid of. I tried uninstalling and even did system restore and it will not go away. Does anyone know what I can do?

Posted 17-Dec-13 10:44am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2013-12-17T12:42:00

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The red X usually means that a control can't render itself because of some error in your code. It's not with the system so reinstalling it isn't going to do anything.

Posted 17-Dec-13 12:42pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Dec-13 22:18pm

"Read x of death" sounds so confusing that I could not guess what it may mean... :-) A 5.
OP is advised to format a hard drive if an application under development keeps crashing, this method of work develops the sense of responsibility. :-)
—SA

Dave Kreskowiak 18-Dec-13 0:39am

Yeah, you get the X when, for example, you owner draw something and the drawing code throws an exception. It's really fun to troubleshoot those, especially when they're intermittent!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Dec-13 1:32am

I know. It's the best not to overuse design mode. Putting all questionable code under if (!DesignMode) { /* ... */ } also can be helpful.
—SA