When Form shows up in IDE, can you see the image(s)?
In fact there was a copy of aw.vcx that Microsoft had made for me without asking. In Windows 7 there is a feature (or bug) called VirtualStore (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/how-to-disable-virtualstore-in-windows-7/55dce284-0dcd-46af-892e-d2b9cf5bcff6) that prevents direct access to some system folders. As ...\ab\ is part of "Program Files" it was also duplicated in VirtualStore and I was editing the copy. Not sure what was FIC using on run - original or copy aw.vcx as this is quite transparrent to user. After disabling VirtualStore I could edit the original aw.vcx bu this didn't eliminate the GDI+ error.
Tried the same on a XP machine where no VirtualStore exists - same result.
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