>>No tricks. :) Just a usual way - all page controls are placed into containers and the particular container is instantiated only when the corresponding page activates the first time.
>>I use CodeMine framework for the new project and this feature is implemented in the pageframe class there.
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>Thanks. Since we don't have frameworks here :(, I have to program it in each form instance by myself...

Now I'm happy that this is virtual, so you can't start throwing things at me: why don't you write a builder? < g, d & rvvf >