[2008] What is best practice to abort startup and close form

[stanav]

What advantage does that have over just doing it in the Form Load event though? I suppose you might save about a second or something where you would of been waiting for the form class to be instantiated but isn't that the only difference?

What advantage? The form only gets created when needed... There's no point in creating a form and then destroying immediately because you find out that you don't need it... If you can check to see whether the form is needed in 1st place, why not doing so?