Class running when I open VS 2012 - vb.net

I'm working on Visual Studio 2012, on a .NET project.
I have a class that pops up a window asking the user for input. The window isn't set to show up at start-up.
Whenever I load my project, before I even build it, that class starts shows up.
When I run my program using the exe file, I don't have the same problem.
Does anybody know how I can prevent it from happening?
Thanks

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