Windows Forms Application

[eXtreme]

How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[AlexS]

Make it public and visible in all classes

HTH
Alex
"eXtreme" <eX*****@community.nospam> wrote in message
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How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[eXtreme]

I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
that Form is not able to see it.

Where do I check the visibility?

Thanks,
"AlexS" <sa***********@SPAMsympaticoPLEASE.ca> wrote in message
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Make it public and visible in all classes

HTH
Alex
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How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

You can either pass a reference to the form to the child form, so that it
can refer to the public members.

Alternative: you can provide a static method on the form that will return
the object. You do not need a reference to the object in the calling code
to call the static method. You can just use the name of the class. This is
a Singleton.

Take a look at http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/singleton.html
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"eXtreme" <eX*****@community.nospam> wrote in message
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I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
that Form is not able to see it.

Where do I check the visibility?

Thanks,
"AlexS" <sa***********@SPAMsympaticoPLEASE.ca> wrote in message
news:uH**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Make it public and visible in all classes

HTH
Alex
"eXtreme" <eX*****@community.nospam> wrote in message
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How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[eXtreme]

What's the best book I can buy, which is C# based, and would teach me about
Windows Forms and how to reference objects not in the current form?

Thanks,
eXtreme

"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <ni*******@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
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You can either pass a reference to the form to the child form, so that it
can refer to the public members.

Alternative: you can provide a static method on the form that will return
the object. You do not need a reference to the object in the calling code
to call the static method. You can just use the name of the class. This
is a Singleton.

Take a look at http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/singleton.html
--
--- Nick Malik [Microsoft]
MCSD, CFPS, Certified Scrummaster
http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
representative of my employer.
I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a
programmer helping programmers.
--
"eXtreme" <eX*****@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:ue**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
that Form is not able to see it.

Where do I check the visibility?

Thanks,
"AlexS" <sa***********@SPAMsympaticoPLEASE.ca> wrote in message
news:uH**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Make it public and visible in all classes

HTH
Alex
"eXtreme" <eX*****@community.nospam> wrote in message
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How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi eXtreme,

For winform books, I'd recommend Chris Cells's

#Windows Forms Programming in C#
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...824083-4872945
?v=glance

Also, there're many good tech articles in MSDN

#Windows Forms Programming in C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...Anchor.asp?fra
me=true

In addition, as for the
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how to reference objects not in the current form?
===============
you mentioned, I think it depends on the objects/data's role and
functionality in your app. Is it usefule and accessiable from all the forms
in your app? If it's a global data, I think you can consider Nick 's
suggestion on using a singleton class which hold the goblal object
references so that we can Access those objects/datas from any form or
class's code. Since your scenario is winform(clientside app) , we don't
need to worry too much about cocurrecy issues.

Thanks,

Steven Cheng
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