Calling an Event as a Function in C++ CLI

Good Afternoon,

This application is for Windows (7)

I have a button in my application which loads settings from a text file. I also want this event to be called during the initialization of the form.

What is have is

Form1(void)
{
    InitializeComponent();

    load_button_Click(this, ...);
}

where the function is:

private: System::Void load_button_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
...
}

I need to pass System::EventArgs^ e to this function and I'm completely lost on how to do that.

I know that I can place all the code from the event into a seaparte function and call that from both the event and during initialization, but I wanted to know if there is a way to call the even function instead.

Thanks,
-D

Tags: C++, Windows, CLI, Event