Guys here is my setup .. 2 Game States (MainMenu and HostGame) here is my rendering method and how im doing this if (currentState == GameState.MainMenu) { backgroundSprite.Begin(SpriteFlags.AlphaBlend); backgroundSprite.Draw2D(backgroundTexture, System.Drawing.Rectangle.Empty, sampleFramework.ClientRectangle, System.Drawing.Point.Empty, System.Drawing.Color.White); backgroundSprite.End(); gameUI.OnRender(elapsedTime); } if (currentState == GameState.HostGame) { backgroundSprite2.Begin(SpriteFlags.AlphaBlend); backgroundSprite2.Draw2D(backgroundTexture2, System.Drawing.Rectangle.Empty, sampleFramework.ClientRectangle, System.Drawing.Point.Empty, System.Drawing.Color.White); backgroundSprite2.End(); gameUI2.OnRender(elapsedTime); } now that basically just checks the gamestate and renders what is the correct dialog. now my question is this .. if i set the game state to either when im starting the application it renders the menu's no problem .. but if i say start off with teh MainMenu and click the button (HostGame Button) that i have on there which simply does this private void OnHostServer(object sender, EventArgs e) { currentState = GameState.HostGame; } just changes the currentState of the game to HostGame it crashes the application with (System.NullReferenceException: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object) i know its not the Sprite setup because if i remark out the gameUI2.OnRender(elapsedTime) it does change the splash screen without any error's this is completely with the menu's onRender statement. if i have 1 dialog running and i want to change to the other dialog menu .. do i have to Dispose the first dialog somehow or .. what is the deal here .. if anyone can help i will award you with 10 brownie points :[] because im stumped.

2 Seperate sprites because im changing the background as they navigate thru the menu's :[] regardless i can get it to change the sprites from one menu to the next but .. i cannot get it to draw the new menu inplace of the old menu. thats the main problem here .. here is a url to the error ..

http://www.cadizzy.com/files/pics/error.jpg

Forget it i figured it out .. basically i was creating 2 dialog's for no reason i could create 1 dialog and tell it in my onFrameRender to render the 1 dialog but in the OnResetDevice i could have it add and remove the control's by what state the game/menu's were at. thanks for your help.