>The app I am working on has a main window in which the main 'thing' runs, and spawns child windows for other things like setting stuff up, or getting reports, etc. When a child window opens it 'flashes' before the content of the window is displayed, and it looks unprofessional, not to mention that it is irritating as heck. Any solution to that?
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>Thanks!

Do not show it until you are finished creating it.
Note that this is not allways possible, some stuff bound to move/resize will not be valid until the form is visible.