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How to Fire an event only after windows form has completely finished loading?

I have a vb.net application with a form that does some heavy processing on form load. I would like to do this processing once the form has completely loaded and visible to the user. (So after form load has been completed and all controls and images have loaded) to decrease flickering and loading time of the actual form.

Is this possible? if so, how would i go about doing so?

Thanks

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Jorge Paulino

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pivar

Hi,

Or you could use the Shown event.

/peter

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ASKER

Thanks.. That worked brilliantly for me!! Just what i needed!

Jorge Paulino

That allows you to control the time, but if you what to start immediately after the form shows, you can use the Peter suggestion (don't forget to use Application.DoEvents() in the beginning of the event)

Mike Tomlinson

You could also force the form to show in the Load() event like this:

Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Me.Show()
        Application.DoEvents()
 
        ' ... rest of your code...
 
    End Sub
   
End Class

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Jorge Paulino

>> You could also force the form to show in the Load() event like this:
Never done that, but it's a nice trick! :)