John,

Unless your app is closing all of them you shouldn't have to open anything but a form/class. You could easy iterate the active windows and find out what's open before you close it and reopen when the app ends.

besides that opening a designer back up is just a single doubleclick of an item in a torn off all tab from the project manager.

>Does anybody know of a 3rd party IDE for VP. I hate to say this but the one in VP has a lot to be desired. Everytime I run my app I have to reopen my forms and code windows. I mean thier has to be something out thier. Coming from VB6 and .net this is like the stone age working with this IDE. You talk about a great product being packaged in a %#@%*)#!%^. Thier has to be 3rd party tool out thier. Please help. Thanks