Load event do not fires with ShowDialog

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Hi,
I am having problem with the Load event on a windows form that does not get fired when it is called from ShowDialog():

Form1 myForm = new Form1();
myForm.ShowDialog();

I had gone through the internet but have not find any solution yet. I have found this[^], but this is not my case since I do not use any ActiveX.
I have also tried to use Show() with no result.

Please help!

Thanks.

Posted 16-Aug-10 0:03am

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Updated 16-Aug-10 0:12am

Nuri Ismail

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Nuri Ismail 16-Aug-10 6:14am

Edited to enhance code formatting and to fix the problem with the provided link.

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Gordon Kushner · Answer 1 · 2010-08-16T01:55:00

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I'll bet it fires the first time you ShowDialog but not subsequent calls. I believe you need to call myForm.Dispose(); when done.

Posted 16-Aug-10 1:55am

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OriginalGriff 16-Aug-10 8:20am

I don't think that is a good idea - once you have Disposed of an object, you aren't supposed to use it again! Better to kill the reference as well and use "new MyForm()" to construct a new instance.

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2010-08-16T00:35:00

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It works fine for me - are you sure you have linked the event in?
If you are absolutely certain, and the method appears in the events list for your form, then do a clean rebuild, followed by a close and restart on VS.

Posted 16-Aug-10 0:35am

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#realJSOP · Answer 3 · 2010-12-30T12:43:00

Solution 4

Are you calling InitializeComponent() in all of your overloaded constructors?

Posted 30-Dec-10 12:43pm

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 30-Dec-10 18:56pm

Or chain your constructor to one that does call InitializeComponent().
public FormWhatEver(...) : FormWhatEver( ... )
{
...
}

Chetan Ranpariya 31-Dec-10 2:34am

Perfect answer.....

Adam Weisser · Answer 4 · 2010-12-30T12:28:00

I've spent the last few hours struggling with the same thing. Never found anything online to help.

I think I've worked it out.

I was overloading the constructor of the form to allow me to set a property when creating the form. I think this stuffed it up.

When I just went back to the simple constructor, the load event started firing again.

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