form.showdialog() function - bug or is it just me ?

[manpowre]

I'm using the showdialog() function, and have put some code in the load event of the form.. guess what ? the load event doesn't run when I'm opening the form with showdialog().

My code:
Dim varFrmSetup As New frmSetup()
varFrmSetup.ShowDialog()


On the load event of the form:
msgbox("test")


The load event ONLY runs when I use the show function of the form instead of showdialog().

Anybody ?

[Edneeis]

Are you using any VB6 controls or COM components?

For instance the MaskEditControl.

Doing so sometimes causes events not to fire and you'll need to capture the window messages directly in order to fire the events.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ght=load+event

[manpowre]

I'm not using any activeX components or upgrading from vb6.
I'm actually rewriting vb6 code into .net methods.. more effective that way.

Could this be a bug ?

[manpowre]

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q318386

bad bad bad MS..

[Cander]

Another possible work around is to use the forms cunstructor(Sub New) Of course it gets fired when you isntantiate the form not when it 'loads' but it might work. Worth a try.