Startup event order is different in Tablet Mode

[markwaterman]

Type of issue

Other (describe below)

Description

Form.Activated fires before Form.Load when Windows 10 is in Tablet Mode.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/order-of-events-in-windows-forms?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-desktop/blob/live/dotnet-desktop-guide/framework/winforms/order-of-events-in-windows-forms.md

Document Version Independent Id

a90ee88c-2328-0773-fd76-a3d31bba77f8

Article author

adegeo

Metadata

• ID: f1257cb4-08dd-47c4-6deb-b3241fd242c8
• Service: dotnet-framework
• Sub-service: winforms

[Thraka]

Thank you for opening this issue. I'll see if we can figure out what is going on.

Thanks again!

@OliaG Can you investigate this?

[OliaG]

@merriemcgaw is this expected? Should we update docs or create an issue in our repo?

[markwaterman]

Thanks for investigating. Somebody on CodeProject did a more thorough analysis here, so it looks like I'm not the first to notice this.

[Thraka]

Assigning the issue to @merriemcgaw to wait for feedback.

[merriemcgaw]

@dreddy-work when you have some time can you debug into it and see what is making us change the order of events? It seems like this isn't a regression, but I'd really like to understand why.

[dreddy-work]

sure. I am currently heads down on the designer work. hopefully get to this early next week.

[Thraka]

@dreddy-work ping

[dreddy-work]

Is this to document only?

[merriemcgaw]

Unless we get some strong feedback from customers that call this a major problem I think documenting only is just fine.

[merriemcgaw]

We can simply add a note that this is the case. I don't foresee us finding a way to change that - it's coming from Windows at this point.