best way to open and close form

[MXAlPhA]

What's the best and most efficient way to open and close a form?

Right now i use the form.visible property to open and close a form and then the form.dispose and application.exit methods to close the apps.

What would you recommend using for closing (and releasing a form from memory) and opening a form.

[MrPolite]

umm how about form.show and form.hide? dunno if it makes a big difference
application.exit will close all the forms, I THINK. I usually use form.close if I dont wanna end my program

[MXAlPhA]

The problem with form.close is that when i try to open the form again, it gives me an error.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by MXAlPhA
The problem with form.close is that when i try to open the form again, it gives me an error.

well I said you should use it when you wanna get rid of it. You can use frm.Hide if you dont want it to be unloaded

[MXAlPhA]

what about releasing the form/application from memory? Does vb.net automatically do that for the most part?

[Edneeis]

Yes it does. Here check this out:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...highlight=read