i found the "Design" and "Source" button. the problem is that i opened the MainWin.cs by the soluction panel. the button only appears when you open a file from the file panel. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/monodevelop-list/attachments/20060606/32c9b3e3/attachment.html