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Need to fire event on form close

in vb.net 2005 . I have two forms open, form1 and form2, is there a way to fire an event on form1 when form2 closes?

Mike Tomlinson

Yes...in Form1, subscribe to Form2's closing event...

Does Form1 create Form2?

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DustinHinkel

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Form2 is opened from a command click from Form1, but not created from form1 if I understand you right. Fairly new to this. How do i "subscrive to Form2's closing event?

Mike Tomlinson

See above... ;)

DustinHinkel

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Thanks that worked. But when I put the code in my project i get an error going in design view. It says:

One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes.

The type Form1 is made of several partial classes in the same file.
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at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.EnsureDocument(IDesignerSerializationManager manager)
at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager manager)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager serializationManager)
at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.BasicDesignerLoader.BeginLoad(IDesignerLoaderHost host)

Mike Tomlinson

Not sure what you did...

Make sure you have only ONE declaration for each form:

Public Class Form1
...
End Class
Public Class Form1
...
End Class

So in the above example, move everything from the second "Form1" class up into the first, and get rid of the second "Form1" class declaration. Other than that, I'm not sure...

DustinHinkel

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Sorry, I'm an idiot. Learning would be impossible without people like you. Thanks