Form lifecycle question....

[craig]

Assume that you have two forms, Form A and Form B.

Code in Form A instantiates and maintains a reference to Form B. Form B
contains an event handler for one of the buttons on Form A. This event
handler is "wired up" when form B is instantiated, in the Form_Load event.

When code in Form A eventually releases its reference to Form B, form B
needs to remove its event handler from Form A. What would be the best way
to make this happen? I could do this by making Form A call a public method
on Form B that releases the event handler. But is there a more automatic
way of making this happen?

Thanks!

 

[Ben S. Stahlhood II]

You should stick your code to free up resources in the dispose method for
the forms and then just call the Dispose method of Form B from Form A.

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II