My trick that is good for all objects is to place a trace (a Stop, a MSGBOX, Console.Write, ...) in almost all events and I run a dummy app with it. I then know when particular events are triggered.
>Hi,
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>I would like to know which events fire (and in what order) when a new windows form is instantiated.
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>TIA,
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>Ben Alicea
Éric Moreau, MCPD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
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Moer inc.
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