'Application' is not a member of 'My'

Question

I'm trying to add a Splash Screen to my form, but I'm getting the error -

'Application' is not a member of 'My'.

I've done some research and came across two possible solutions, but neither of them have worked for me.

1. Splash Screen Error "'Application' is not a member of 'My'." The answer here suggests ticking the 'Enable Application Framework' option in the Project settings, but that option is greyed out.
2. The 'My' Namespace in a VB.NET Application is Missing Members. This answer suggests that I need to add a Reference to the Project in the Project settings, but doing this does not fix the error.

Can anyone please suggest what I can do to solve this problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

That's a known issue for me. Open .vbproj file and change where it says

<MyType>Empty</MyType>

to

<MyType>WindowsForm</MyType>

Answer 2

We tried the suggestion above but it did not work for us with a Class Library in Visual Studio 2013. After investigating another project that worked, we found that changing to using "Windows" instead of "WindowsForm" enabled that functionality

<MyType>Windows</MyType>

Answer 3

I recently ran into this issue as well. The solution in my case was that I had created a .NET Core app, rather than a .NET Framework app.

Copied my code into a new Framework app and it worked just fine.