Stupid and easy newbie question

[compugeek]

Hello, I'm a newbie at these forums, and at VB.NET programming. How do you close an open window? I have tried varForm.Visible = False and varForm = Nothing, etc, but all it does is put it behind another form.

 

Help!

 

Thanks,

 

-compugeek

[PlausiblyDamp]

varForm.Hide

[mpgrewal]

Goto Help menu

Select Index

Type closing forms

And read carefully

Cheers

[compugeek]

Oh, thanks, I'll try that.

 

PlausiblyDamp: Nope, same result. It dosen't work.

[compugeek]

Hm, nothing in the help files. Well, I hafta go right now; be back later.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Could you give a code sample because

1) what I suggested works fine for me.

2) seems unlikely there is nothing in the help files on hiding or closing a form

[mutant]

If you want to completely close the form, not just hide it then simply use the Close() method of the form, it shoud work.

[samsmithnz]

What about the form.dispose method? that works too...

[Bucky]

If you Dispose() of the form, then its resources are freed and you

can't open it again without reinitailizing the variable. Close() is

the best way to close the form.

[mutant]

Close() method disposes of the form too.

[Volte]

I'm fairly sure Dispose() doesn't allow the Closed or Closing events to be called, so it's best to use Close over Dispose.

[aewarnick]

Yes, that makes sense VolteFace because I would usually get object reference not set to an instance if I used Dispose for a Form. So, consequently I use Close instead. Edited September 4, 2003 by aewarnick