Question about showing and hiding forms

Okay this might seem kind of a dumb question, but i cant seem to figure it out...

i have this code in form 1:

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load


Dim Form2 As New Form2()
Form2.Show()
End Sub

and this code in form 2:

Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim form1 As New Form1()
form1.Hide()
End Sub


The problem is that Form2 will show, but it will not hide form1 when it loads, what can i do to fix this, i have tried everything i can think of.
:confused:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...adingtonet.asp

Required reading.

What you are doing is creating a new instance of form1 in your form2 code. This isn't affecting the instance that is already created. In order to do form1.hide, you need to have a reference to the already created form1. You can pass in a reference through the constructor of form2, or you can do what that link says to do.

I think you can just set the visibility of form1 in the designer to false. If not you can use Me.Hide() or Me.Visible() = False in Form1 load event. The previous post hit the nail on the head.