>>Does a forms Activate event only fire once?
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>>Thanks
>>Tom
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>In addition to what Bruce says, form.Activate will fire twice if you try to somecontrol.SetFocus() in form.Init()

That's it, that's it! Now it's clear, why my Form.Refresh() fires twice. So, I would probably put comments into Form.Activate() method for this particular form, which prevents firing of the Baseclass method.