close button on control box of form

[visiontec]

Hi there Can anyone tell me how i can change the action of the close button on the control box of the form. i want to hide the form rather than to close it when the close button is pressed. VisionTec

[Heath Stewart]

Handle the Form.Closing event (or override the related method for derived classes), cancel it, and do something else:

public class MyForm : Form
{
// ...
protected override void OnClosing(CancelEventArgs e)
{
this.Hide();

// Code below probably isn't necessary unless handling the event externally,
// but this gives other listeners a chance to override the behavior
// if necessary.
e.Cancel = true;
base.OnClosing(e);

}
}

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