Hi Steve,

There are a couple of links on this site that may help:

A control's Validating event is hit even when the user clicks on the Close box. How can I avoid this behavior?
I would like to prevent validation in my textbox when the user clicks on my Cancel button, how do I do this?

by the way, this site only seems to work properly in IE.
The example is in C#, I think you can use DisplayRectangle in VB.NET instead of ClientRectangle as per the examples.

>Is there any way to stop the validating event on user controls being executed when the user closes the form.

>We inherit the main form and have tried changing the CausesValidation property on this but this doesn't seem to override the validating events of the controls.

>Basically we have controls where in some circumstances they cannot be blank etc and a message is displayed, but if the user closes a form without saving then we would not want these messages displayed.

>Thanks
>Steve