Closing a form during a constructor

The only thing you could do it set a flag to close it in the constructor, and then closing it in the Shown event. Of course, if you're doing that, it makes sense to move the code to determine whether it should be closed there in the first place.

The following works well:

public partial class MyForm : Form
{        
    public MyForm()
    {
        if (MyFunc())
        {
            this.Shown += new EventHandler(MyForm_CloseOnStart);
        }
    }

    private void MyForm_CloseOnStart(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Close();
    }
}

Calling Close from the constructor of the Form is not possible, as it will call Dispose on a Form that has not yet been created. To close the Form after construction, assign an anonymous event handler to the Load event that closes your Form before it is displayed for the first time:

public partial class MyForm : Form
{
    public MyForm()
    {
        if (ShouldClose())
        {
            Load += (s, e) => Close();
            return;
        }

        // ...
    }

    // ...
}