Form_Load event

[Genie]

When opening a form, I am loading data into a few combo boxes from an Oracle database.

I make a call to a class that load the data from the Form_Load event.

The form hangs and is not fully drawn until my data fetching is complete.

I used to have this problem in VB but I used the .Show method then, at the begining of the Form_Load event to show the form before getting data from the database which solved that.

I tried this in C# but it doesn't seem to work.

Any idea's on how I can show the form fully and have the data load whilst it is shown.

[sunburnt]

You can load the data in a seperate thread.

using System.Threading;

// ....
class myForm : Form
{
     public void LoadDatabase()
     {
          // ... do stuff
     }

     public void myForm_Load()
     {
          Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(LoadDatabase) );
          t.Start();
     }

}

[PT Exorcist]

also, if u wanto to create controls in the form in that method, u cant as u have to create another method that does that job and u must call it as this.BeginInvoke(<delegate pointing to the method>, <args if any>); otherwise u'll get an error in the threads