Question MDIForms - How to Close and Reopen Child Form within Parent

[Smokeywade]

When my application first loads the parent opens and I select my child form from toolstrip:

'In parent open the form when option is clicked
Public Sub Showfrmitemreview(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles itemreivewStripMenuItemA.Click, itemreviewStripMenuItemB.Click
        Dim ChildForm As New frm_itemreview
        ChildForm.MdiParent = Me
        ChildForm.Show()
    End Sub

This works fine.

Now when I'm in the child window once I'm done with the needed updates successfully I want that form to close and reopen

so I call

'In child I call the sub thats located in parent
MDIParent1.Showfrmitemreview(Me, EventArgs.Empty)
Me.close

Nothing happens I don't even get an error message. I've played around with the code numerous times and the only thing that worked was to have it open outside of the parent which I do not want to happen.

If anyone have any suggestions please help.

 

[Smokeywade]

I found a work around for my issue. But still wondering how to get the above to work. If any one have an idea, I'm all ears.