[phil2005]

My app needs to do a lot of processing as an MDI form is loaded - populating combo boxes and listviews for example. I want the form to be shown propertly with something to demonstrate progress (either a progress bar on the form, or on another form).

Currently, at the end of the Load event I start a timer, and do the populating in this, but it doesn't seem very elegant. Is there a "form loaded" event I've missed, or is there another way?

[kmoyle73]

There is an event called Shown that occurs when the form first becomes visible. Maybe you are looking for this?

[phil2005]

that's what I needed

[AtmaWeapon]

You might want to consider asynchronously loading the data, since you indicated you wanted to show progress. I've attached a project that demonstrates this. The child form starts a BackgroundWorker that generates data; while the data is generated, a UserControl is used to display the progress.