Judging from the support questions we have been getting in the last two weeks, it seems it's hard to set up forms to start using FlowChart.NET in the VS designer. Everybody successfully adds both Diagram and DiagramView objects to the form, but many people forget to specify that the Diagram instance is the one that should be displayed in the DiagramView. To do that -

- select the view
- display its properties
- find the view's Diagram property (it's in the Misc category)
- in the Diagram property drop-down list select the diagram you have on the form
- if you do not see that diagram in the list, close the form and open it again

That's all. Now you will be able to successfully set the diagram's properties and events using the designer.

Of course you can set the view's Diagram from code, without adding a diagram to the form, but it's not much fun to add event handlers manually. Most events are defined in in Diagram and not in DiagramView, in order to let you add their handlers just once. Otherwise in MDI interface you would have to connect handlers to their events for each view.

HTH
g.