Question

In my application, I have it call a startup method in my MainForm class called OnStart, which is defined as such:

public void OnStart()
{
    //code
}

When I call it from the Main method, it doesn’t run. What am I doing wrong?
(Oh, and the same thing as with the OnStop method.)

Here is my Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Logger
{
    static class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

            MainForm mainForm = new MainForm();
            Application.Run(mainForm);  

            AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit += new EventHandler (mainForm.OnStop);

            mainForm.OnStart();
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Application.Run will hang until your form closes so you’ll need to call OnStart before it and OnStop after.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Logger
{
    static class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

            MainForm mainForm = new MainForm();
            mainForm.OnStart();
            Application.Run(mainForm);  
            mainForm.OnStop()

        }
    }
}