when you instantiate something your making a copy.. plain and simple..

no need to over complicate it...

not making a copy in the same sense as a copy command.. nobody is talking about that...

It was an example to illustrate an idea...

If you add something to your solution, it instantiates or makes a copy for you...

If i have two forms in my solution.. I can still create a new instance of another from the first..... assign it a name..
But you dont have to..

I can do form2.show
or dim tot as new form2
tot.show..

When you start programming101 they dont frickin break it down to an atomic level.. and over complicate ****..
You get a general idea for your understanding... Then you get into the inner working...

The best way to understand something is through comparison and through analogies...

if you think you have a better example then by all means... everyone explains thing slightly different..

but nit picking someone elses example isnt helping anything.. especially not the original posters question...


if you dont make a new COPY of form2 you are affecting form2... If you make a copy the original isnt touched...