All of those solutions sound great in theory, but none of them work for me, and I have the same problem. I created a form, designed a window, and when I opened it up again the design window was nowhere to be seen. I'm new to this IDE and Visual Basic, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing (self-teaching, you know how that goes, especially with a hobby like programming). Anyone care to tell me why nothing happens when I press Shift+F7 or double click the node in the solution explorer, and why I don't have a designer option in my view menu or in the context menu when clicking on my form in the solution explorer?