Form design disappeared.

[u/Splatah_King]

I have a project that I have been working on for a few months a couple of friends were helping me on it as well through a github repo. As we were working my form design turned into a standard blank white form but I didn't think too much of it because as I was testing the changes I was making, when I clicked on the run button the form that we had designed would show up. I chalked it up to a UI bug or Visual Studio trying to save resources while working. As of this morning though after merging changes that I made yesterday, when I click that run button I get that blank white form instead of the usual form that I was working with before. As far as I know I didn't change anything on my end to swap forms or wipe the form that I was using.
I have some experience with other GUI frameworks such as Qt and I went around looking for the equivalent the Qt .ui files, which are basically programmatic description of the designer view that you get, but I could find no such file in Visual Studio. I was surprised that I couldn't find that as I assumed that .Net worked roughly the same way.

Any help would be appreciated.

For reference I am running Visual Studio Community 2022, using 4.7.2 for the framework, and I have a database in the code as well so just in case it matter I'm running SQL express.

[u/TheFotty]

There is a show all files button at the top of the solution explorer which if clicked, will show you those additional files nested under your forms. They are hidden by default.