In a master/detail arrangement, the detail is made up of a mutliview. I have a chartcontrol inside one view of the multiview. The view that contains the chart is not the opening view. When the view containing the chart is selected by the user, the chart does not appear. When the user selects another selection from the masterfile (a gridview) with the view containing the chart still open, the chart for that selection appears. As long as the view containing the chart remains open, all subsequent master selections display the chart. If the user clicks off of the view which contains the chart and then reopens the view that contains the chart, the chart does not appear.

Is there any way to get the chart to appear the first time the view containing it is selected.

Are you getting blank chart ( white image ) or broken image? Blank chart means no data binding or no data points or chart series presence. If you use chart data binding by definitions in the .aspx ( no code behind) you can force chart to data bind any time by calling Chart.DataBind().