I recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2015 from 2013 because for some reason 2013 would not work on Windows 10 for me, even after multiple install attempts.
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I have the exact same problem and opened a support incident with Microsoft. They have verified per their answer below, that this is a bug with VS 2015 Update-1. We have a few computers running with just VS 2015(no update 1) that work just fine. I will pass along any further information that I receive from Microsoft.
Response from Microsoft:
"Yes this happens only with Visual Studio 2015 update1. It seems to be a bug in VS2015 Update1, I am discussing with product team to fix this issue.
If you just avoid using default instance of forms. Creating a form instance, storing it in a local variable or field, and passing those references around is easy enough. It's also a much better practice that will make your code stronger overall.
Dim f As New Form2
f.TextBox1.Text = "Hi"