Launching a form from a form

private: System::Void button2_Click(System::Object *  sender, System::EventArgs *  e)
                   {                  
                         Form2^ frm = new Form2();
                         this->Hide();
                         frm->ShowWindow();
                   }

When trying to compile this source code I get the following errors:

Form1.h(104) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '^'
Form1.h(106) : error C2065: 'frm' : undeclared identifier
Form1.h(106) : error C2227: left of '->ShowWindow' must point to class/struct/union
 type is ''unknown-type''
C:\Programfiler\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\Include\WinUser.h(3691) : error C2365: 'ShowWindow' : redefinition; previous definition was a 'formerly unknown identifier'

What have I done wrong here ? :-(

But that isn't C++ .net code - hw did it even compile?

I'm a newbie. I use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE with Visual C++.
Your code (which of course is C++.net-code) did not compile (see error messages in an earlier posting), but my code snippet did compile and - surprisingly - it runs as well.

I started by choosing "Visual C++ Projects" and then "Windows Forms Application" as template. This template should be "A project for creating an application with a Windows user interface using Managed Extensions for C++.".  So maybe I'm not using .NET-code using this template at all - or.. ???

>>MS Visual Studio .NET 2003

Hmmm, is it using the older syntax?  Microsoft made some changes to C++.net very early on.  Be careful, you might be writing code that you would have difficulty porting to a newer version of visual studio.

It seems so. And I no intention of upgrading to a new version of Visual Studio now. I only want to make this program work on the Windows platform. Maybe I'll port it to Java later on.. :-))

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