>>How about the design window size? Are these any rules about that?
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>>Nope. I wish I could be of more help, but it is difficult when I cannot reporduce the problem. My advice to you is to step through the resize code of the form where the text boxes are off the screen and see what is going on.
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>Sorry to bug u on this.
>It seems to matter what the height and the width are during development. My thinking was that this didn't matter and that the form would maximize to be totally visuble in the screen during runtime. No?

No. You define Form.width and height properties during development. If you want the form to be maximized at start during run-time then you set Form.Windowstate=2 in code.