(following my previous post)

In the MSDN library it says..

"If you load a Form whose MDIChild property is set to True (in other words, the child form) before loading an MDIForm, the MDIForm is automatically loaded before the child form.MDI child forms cannot be hidden, and thus are immediately visible after the Form_Load event procedure ends."

Does anyone know a way round that? so that I can load up the MDIChild form at start up but not show it?

The main reason I want to do that is cos I have a large form.. and thus it takes time to load. So I want it to load at the start of the program while the users see the splash screen.

Any ideas?

thanks!
Abdul