From: Mighty G on
what happens when you repoint designer support dll in orientation aware
designer project to one in this folder?

\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SmartDevices\SDK\VisualStudio\Designer

"velver" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Trying to test MS Orientation Aware Controls from Microsoft
> Mobile Smart Client 2006 on VS 2005 I am having this particular
> error when I try to open any OA control or form which hosts it
> in *a designer* :
>
> ---------------------
> Unable to cast object of type
> 'Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.SystemValueProviderService' to type
> 'Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.ISystemValueProviderService'.
> ---------------------
>
> The project OrientationAwareDemo builds and runs OK however. The
> problem only appears when I want to open OAC control or form in
> VS 2005 designer. The desiner does not load and VS shows HTML page
> whit the error mentioned above.
>
> What could be the reason for this particular error ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hint ...
>