VB.net Preload forms

[lawlegacy]

Is there a way to preload forms in vb.net? I need to load a form into memory without showing the form.

Thanks in advance!

 

[earthandfire]

Have a look at the Visible property


Hope this helps

 

[TipGiver]

What i would do:

-Declare (Public Dim f As FormName) in a module. If you use a class, then you can add the 'Shared' keyword in order not to have to init the class.

-Do like : f = New FormName
And then show it : f.Show()
(As f is Public and/or Shared, it can be accessed by anywhere in the project(s))

 

[lawlegacy]

Well form.show causes the form to appear. I would like it to load it in the background.

 

[TipGiver]

Just don't call the .Show() or .ShowDialog() methods. Only init a new instance of the form.

 

[lawlegacy]

Thank you!

I put all my loading code inside the new() contructor and it works now. Before I had it on the load event so it didn't execute the code until I called form.show