Load a form without showing it

Question

Short version: I want to trigger the Form_Load() event without making the form visible. This doesn\'t work because Show() ignores the current value of the Visible property:<

Answer 1

Perhaps it should be noted here that you can cause the form's window to be created without showing the form. I think there could be legitimate situations for wanting to do this.

Anyway, good design or not, you can do that like this:

MyForm f = new MyForm();
IntPtr dummy = f.Handle; // forces the form Control to be created

I don't think this will cause Form_Load() to be called, but you will be able to call f.Invoke() at this point (which is what I was trying to do when I stumbled upon this SO question).