Form appear behind everything? - vb.net

I'm developing a project on the .NET platform(VB.NET), and noticed after nearly ready maybe a bug of Visual Studio 2010. When I click to open the Form2 through Form3 it appears behind the main Form1 and not in front it should usually be. I searched a lot in various foruns and found nothing about it.
For ease of understanding the problem I'm providing the download link containing the program and code.
Thanks in Advance

Add the following to Form 2 and Form 3 at the end of the load event
ME.BringToFront

Rob, it don't work and I found a kludge.
Follow the link:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/pt-BR/e5a74745-83a3-40e6-a558-c8aae4ac3938/form-abre-atrs-do-form-principal?forum=vsvbasicpt
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