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

Sometimes this would be useful without it being bad design. Sometimes it could be the start of a migration from native to managed.

If you were migrating a c++ app to .NET for example, you may simply make yourwhole app a child window of the .NET form or panel, and gradually migrate over to the .NET by getting rid of your c++ app menu, status bar, toolbar and mapping teh .NEt ones to your app using platform invoke etc...

Your C++ app may take a while to load, but the .NET form doesn't..in which you may like to hide the .NEt form until your c++ app has initialised itself.

I'd set opacity=0 and visible=false to false after calling show, then when your c++ app loads, then reverse.