Load vs. Shown events in Windows Forms

Question

Hopefully I\'m just missing something obvious, but I\'m trying to get my head around the differences between the Load and the Shown events in Windows Forms.

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Answer 1

Here's the sequence of event I traced. May this will help others to decide how they would like to call or set their custom event handling

Events traced

Form - Client Size Changed : 8/14/2010 10:40:28 AM
Form - Control Added - button1 : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Constructor : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Handle Created : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Invalidated : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Form Load event : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Loaded : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Create Control : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - OnActivated : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Shown : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - OnPaint : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - Invalidated : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM
Form - OnPaint : 8/14/2010 10:40:29 AM