In an application I am developing ,out of 15 command buttons ,14 of them do not appear at runtime in their respective positions and in there place I find parts of the previous screen or window. When i move the mouse pointer over the respective positions, the pointer changes just as it should and on clicking the areas the buttons appear.This not only occurs in the VB IDE but also in the exe. Although I have compared each and every property of the 14 buttons to the one button which appears properly I cannot find any problem/difference.

One of these buttons is also an exit button so I am always forced to close the application just to make it look right.
All the buttons work properly after they appear and so does the application.

I have tried to make many new simple applications but they all work fine.

I have checked and rechecked the code but I can find no problem with it.
The code has nothing to do with the display of the buttons.
I do not understand where have I gone wrong.

Sounds like there's a problem with a loop somewhere.

Is the app responsive? iow, once the buttons appear, everything works perfectly?

Is there any code in the Resize event handler? A fast timer doing something tricky? Can you duplicate the problem by copy/pasting all controls and code to a new project? (you can run several instances of the VB IDE if you want)

It's really hard to tell what's going on without looking at some code.

If you are using a frame or something like that, your buttons may be unintentionally sitting behind it. Make sure that your Zorder is correct. A little code will go a long way towards helping us help you though.