VB2005 The right event

[bodylojohn]

Hello,

I Have a form. (frmForm1)
On that form is a link to another (frmForm2) form that opens as a dialog.
When form2 closes I want to perfom an action on form1.
I tried the Activated event but that is called more often then when I close frmform2.

The action is only to be performed when form2 closes.

Does anybody have a suggestion to wich event to use???

[jmcilhinney]

You don't need an event. You display the dialogue by calling ShowDialog and it doesn't return until the form is closed. That means you just perform your action immediately after ShowDialog.

That's assuming that you want a modal dialogue. If not then you would handle the Closed event of the second form, not an event of the first.

[Krenshau]

VisibleChanged should work, else you could include the things you want to do following the code that hides your form.

Hope that helps.

[bodylojohn]

Thank you.

Once again you guys helped me very very much.

I did the following:

Private Sub lblLand_LinkClicked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles lblLand.LinkClicked
frmLanden.ShowDialog()
Call FillDataset()
End Sub

And it works perfectly

[jmcilhinney]

Not that it will do any harm but note that the 'Call' keyword doesn't really serve a purpose in VB.NET. I have heard it said that it improves the readability of code but I can't say that I see that myself.