Winforms Visibility issues on Dynamically Loaded UserControls? -

so have program dynamically loads in usercontrols depending on criteria, problem i'm having validation truly working on first textbox loaded.

the following code ran each usercontrol loaded:

        try             textbox = directcast(flprepeatconts.controls(count).controls("tbanswertext"), telerik.wincontrols.ui.radtextbox) ' control(1) = textbox answer             labelansid = directcast(flprepeatconts.controls(count).controls("lblqid"), radlabel)             labelminholder = directcast(flprepeatconts.controls(count).controls("lblmintextholder"), radlabel)             lblvalidationtext = directcast(flprepeatconts.controls(count).controls("lblvalidationtext"), radlabel)              if textbox.text.length >= labelminholder.text , textbox.text.length <= textbox.maxlength                 'good go.                 lblvalidationtext.visible = false             else                 'too little/not enough text                 if labelminholder.text = textbox.maxlength                     lblvalidationtext.text = string.format("text must {0} characters! ({1} of {0})", labelminholder.text, textbox.text.length)                 else                     lblvalidationtext.text = string.format("text must between {0} , {1} characters!", labelminholder.text, textbox.maxlength)                 end if                 inerror = true                 lblvalidationtext.visible = true             end if          catch ex exception             'exception handling here         end try          count += 1 

the true issue here labels past first 1 never show (unless there's atleast 1 character in respective textbox, in case error message show). i'm stumped , hoping set of eyes see don't. i've set breakpoints , stepped through , text , visibility are in fact being set, don't take effect.