WinForm Loses App Background

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    WinForm Loses App Background

    I've got a Windows Forms application. There is a form that may be shown by
    clicking a command button on either of 2 other forms. I use ShowDialog in
    all cases to get modal behavior. When the app starts up, I show a main form
    that is maximized and serves as the background for all three other forms.

    In the first case, everything works as expected when clicking the command
    button. The initial form closes, the second form is shown and when I close
    the 2nd form, the initial is shown again.

    In the second case, when the initial form closes, the entire background of
    the app disappears. The second form shows but the background is my VS IDE.
    When I close the second form, the initial shows again and reverts to my main
    app background.

    I want explicit control over when each form is shown so I load the forms
    into a stack. The command buttons actually call a method that displays the
    top form on the stack using ShowDialog and when a form is closed it is popped
    off the stack.

    Any thoughts on why this could be occurring?
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