Closing a form during a constructor

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;
        }

        // ...
    }

    // ...
}