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

It sounds to me like you need to sit down and re-think your approach here. I cannot imagine a single reason your public methods need to be in a form if you are not going to show it. Just make a new class.