Winform - which is a usercontrol last event to fire

Question

Which is a usercontrol last event to fire when the application/control is loaded? The load event?

Answer 1

That really depends on when during its life you are talking about. Given your guess at Load, we talk during creation/load. This list shows a few events in the order that they were fired in a simple UserControl that I set up for testing (hooked up a number of eventlisteners and printed the event name to the console):

HandleCreated
Load
Layout
VisibleChanged
Paint

Note that Layout, VisibleChanged and Paint does not strictly have anything to do with the control creation; Layout and in particular Paint may or will be raised at a number of occasions during the life of the control. The same goes for VisibleChanged which is raised whenever the value of the Visible property is changed.