Loading Form

[John]

Hi

Is it possible to load a few forms without showing them? Will it make
showing of forms any faster when needed?

Thanks

Regards

[John]

Run form's load event so all databindings etc (time consuming stuff) is
done. This can be done at application start-up.
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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* "John" <jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> scripsit:

Is it possible to load a few forms without showing them? Will it make
showing of forms any faster when needed?

What do you mean by "loading a form"?

You can instantiate the form class without showing the form:

\\\
Dim f As New Form1()
///

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Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
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[Armin Zingler]

"John" <jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> schrieb

Run form's load event so all databindings etc (time consuming stuff)
is done. This can be done at application start-up.

I don't know when databinding takes place, but you can't separate loading a
Form from showing it because "the load" happens before the Form is shown the
first time. If databinding takes place in the constructor, creating the
Form instance only - as Herfried wrote - should do the job.
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Armin

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "John" <jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> scripsit:

Run form's load event so all databindings etc (time consuming stuff) is
done. This can be done at application start-up.

Whenever the 'Load' event is raised, the form will show. The only way
to stop this process is throwing an exception, but this won't help in
your situation.

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Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>