I tried that too, by setting its visible property to false and then calling
form1.show()
then i set back the visible property to true. there was no improvement. I
have a very complex form containing multiple panes and lot of controls,
nearly 200 textboxes and labels. this is becoming very hard for me. In VB6
we can load a form and then show it. is there any way in VB.NET
Hoping for any other help.

Zafar Iqbal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Bembeneck" <sbembeneck@c...>
To: "pro_VB_dotnet" <pro_vb_dotnet@p...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:02 PM
Subject: [pro_vb_dotnet] Re: Slow form loading in VB.Net


> Just a guess, but Is it possible to keep it hidden while it loads, then
> show it?
>
> Seth
>
> > I use multiple MdiChild forms in my VB.Net application. Most of the
forms
> c> ontain around 30 or so textboxes with the same amount of labels, and
> o> ther combo boxes and radio buttons. When they are initially loaded the
> f> orms take 2-3 seconds to load, and even then they seem to display on a
> c> ertain coordinate before actually "stretching" to the fixed size I have
> a> llocated. After they are loaded the toggling between them (using
> B> ringToFront) "visibly" does not cause the same delay. Is there any way
I
> c> an tune my application for a better result when a new form is loaded
for
> t> he first time?
>
> >  > Regards,
>
> > Zafar Iqbal