Carter,

When a form/control is opened in the IDE, the form's/control's constructor is run and also the load event is fired. You can't debug those methods when just opening the form/control in the IDE, so I suggest running the app and putting breakpoints in your contstructor and your load eventhandler.

~~Bonnie



>Bonnie,
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>thanks for you reply. This message is presented at design time, within the VS.Net Dev environment, so I haven't tried to debug it. Was hoping one of the MM.Net folks could give me a quick answer.
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>I'm not brand new to .NET or VS.NET, so I'm familiar with debugging of an app, but not things that would happen in the Dev environment, can you shed some light there?
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>Thanks,
>Carter