title: Unable to Attach Debug Visual Studio 2017
body: <p>I am using Visual Studio 2017 and I am trying to fix an error I got:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>The designer loader did not provide a root component but has not indicated why.</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>And then when I close and re-open I get this error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Design.ExceptionCollection' was thrown.</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I am trying to follow this answer:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9579544/system-componentmodel-design-exceptioncollection">System.ComponentModel.Design.ExceptionCollection</a></p>
  <ol>
  <li>I cant find:</li>
  </ol>
  <blockquote>
  <p>In one instance, goto Debug-&gt;Exceptions and enable all the 'Thrown'
  options to stop at first chance exceptions</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>So I went to Debug&gt;Windows&gt;Exception Settings. But I was not certain what to check since there is no 'Thrown' that seems to make sense. Maybe check everything?</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>I can't attach to the process it is missing when I tried to do this:</p>
  <p>In the same instance, select Debug-&gt;Attach to Process, select devenv.exe.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tu7nl.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tu7nl.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  </li>
  </ol>
  <p>This is what I got when I debugged it with  Jimi's suggestions:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tu7nl.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a>: <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VLyJm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://i.stack.imgur.com/VLyJm.png</a></p>
  <p>The form works fine at run time, it only has an issue at design time.</p>