Thread: load a second form from a button? vc++

Seems like an easy enough question... so easy in fact that 90% of what I have looked up about dialogs/forms/buttons glosses right over it. I'm hoping this isnt one of those questions that seem ridiculously simple but are way overly complicated. All I want to do is on a ButtonClick event from Form1, load Form2.
thanks

Ok, I got it by doing this:

Code:

private: System::Void bEdit_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
			 properties_form ^pf = gcnew properties_form;
				 pf->Show();
		 }

but can anyone tell me why in all the examples I find they use * instead of ^? I know in regular C++ what * signifies but th VC++ compiler always wants me to replace it with ^.