christian is correct this is the first step in developing windows application.. lots of tutorials are available on net which starts from scratch.. better read them first. nyways for this particaular problem of yours, here is the code.. in button click event of form1 code like this.. button1_click() dim a as new form2 'makes the instance for form2 a.show() ' shows the form2 on clicking of button1 me.close ' for closing of form1(optional)