I have just started to use VB.Net and are experiencing a major problem, the components on my child forms are not showing at run time. On the main form I have main menu component with the other forms leading from this, this section all works fine, however all the components on the called forms are invisible even though the visible properties are true.

Is the main form a MDI container? I am writing a similar application. On my 'main' form - (MDI container = true), I simply have:

     Private WithEvents Form2 As Form

and a menu-click event:

     Form2 = New Form2()
     Form2.MdiParent = Me
     Form2.Show()

to create instances of my "Form2", complete with my components visible.