Exactly Microsoft introduce the My.Forms in vb.net 2005 cause of vb6 developers complain, IMO that was a big mistake, is unusable, unless you never close the form and just hide it, I prefer my form collection class gives me alot more power, and I can control how I can look up a form.

>ah yes I think I'm familiar with the method you use, someone I know uses that method while using VB.NET 2002, which he couldn't figure out how to call forms directly like in VB6 with the Form1.Show method, but when VB.NET 2005 allowed that again, we tried to revert to that style of form handling, until we encountered that roadblock with form disposing
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>Thanks for the info