Showing Form at Run

ormonds

I have an application which starts with:

   public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        form = this;
    }

    private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        textBox2.Text = "Initialising.....";
        this.Show();
        Refresh();

When I run it from within VS the form appears as expected. When I publish the app, install it and then run I never see the form. Changing this.Show() to Form1.Show() gives error CS0120. Can anyone help?

Dave Kreskowiak

Why on earth are you doing a Show and a Refresh in Form_Load? The form is drawn for the first time AFTER your Form_Load event handler returns. There's nothing to show yet and there's nothing to refresh! Remove those two lines of code:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox2.Text = "Initialising.....";
}

You also spelled "Initializing" wrong.

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ormonds

Thanks. I must be British: [https://writingexplained.org/recognise-or-recognize-difference\](https://writingexplained.org/recognise-or-recognize-difference)