changing Load(form) to RaiseEvent

[KPexEA]

I'm converting an older VB program ( that I didn't write ) to the latest (VB 2005) and the UpgradeWizard has convered it all to the newest but it complains about this:

Load(formname)

'Public Event Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)' is an event, and cannot be called directly. Use a 'RaiseEvent' statement to raise an event.

I'm fairly new to VB so I have no idea what to do, any ideas? I assume that if it was trivial then the wizard would have just changed it for me.

Thanks
Kevin

[TheCPUWizard]

and the UpgradeWizard has convered

In general, using the UpgradeWizard for "real" "production" code is a BAD idea.

There are enough architectural differences between VB6.0 and VB.Net that even if the program functions, it will be far from optimal on all fronts [performance, reliability, maintainability, etc].

[aniskhan]

Well i assume Load is a Subprocedure.
So here the name of sub conflicts with the load event in base class of Form.
As a result the upgrade wizard changed its declaration as an event and wants it to be raised.
Just change the sub-procedure's name and declaration to

Public Sub LoadForm(ByVal frmName as String)

[Shuja Ali]

And CPUWizard has already suggested, it is better to re-write the application. IMHO Upgrade Wizard nothing but a load of crap. It is there just for the sake of it. You will be better of re-writing the code rather than using the upgrade wizard.

There is a toolkit that MS released sometime back. This helps you in doing an incremental upgrade and is easy to use. Have a look at Microsoft InteropForms Toolkit 1.0. This will help you in upgrading your application over the period of time to .NET and will let you keep the Forms from VB 6 too.

Now coming back to your question. In .NET everything you create is a Class and in order to use it you need to create an object using the class. So when you add a Form to your project, you are basically adding a Class which contains the underlying code which is used to create the Form. At runtime you need to create an object using that Class. Now if you add a Form Form2 to your project and you want to show it, you need to do this

'create an object of type Form2
Dim mySecondForm As New Form2
'show the form
mySecondForm.Show()