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Language: Visual Basic
Expertise: Intermediate

Aug 19, 1997

When unloading a form, use the following piece of code behind a Close button:

 Unload <formName> 

This code should also be put in the Form_Unload() event handler for that form:

 Set <formName> = Nothing 

This clears out any remaining code/data in the data segment for the form, if you don't do it explicitly. This is important when you load/unload many forms, especially those with lots of controls. By the way, this is not a bug--it's done this way by design. The same is true for VBA--if you don't initialize global (module) variables in VBA (for Excel, for example) and have this kind of expression:

 i% = i% + 1 

then i% will successively have the values 1, 2, 3, . . . as you run the VBA script one more time. Again, by design.