"The designer loader did not provide a root component but has not indicated why."

Ever seen this error in Visual Studio 2005?

I’ve seen it all too often and it is really annoying.

However, I did find a possible fix today. I was working in a project that had multiple assembly references. One of the references was using a 1.1 assembly, so it came along for the ride. By simply removing that reference, I was able to view my form without any problems. If I tried to add the reference back, I would get the designer error again. I reworked the assembly being referenced to not use any 1.1 components and… lo and behold… the designer errors stopped.

Is this just a really random bug or is this a subtle way to push people to migrate to .NET 2.0?