Hide active form while moving to next form

[phpmagesh]

Hi,

i am working with C sharp dot net application, where i have more forms,.
i have to move to next form at the same time i have to hide the the existing form. it works fine in VB.net but not coming in csharp.net.

Can any one help me how to hide the active form when i move to next form

Thanks in advance,

Magesh

[tlhintoq]

The methods .Hide() and .Show() are what you should be using.

[phpmagesh]

I Tried using

form f1 = new form1()
f1.hide();
form2 f2 = new form2()
f2.show();
 

But second form came to screen, but first form is still alive..

Regards,

[tlhintoq]

I seriously doubt that your new instance of Form1 is visible since you have not yet shown it.

You do realize you could have many instances of Form1, right? My guess is that your application starts in an instance of Form1 and that it is that instance of Form1 you are seeing. Making a *new* Form1 is not going to let you hide the *old* Form1

[Curtis Rutland]

If you're on the currently active form, and you want a second form to show, you'll need to do something like this:

Form2 f2 = new Form2();
this.Hide();
f2.Show();

The problem with this, however, is getting your original form to show again later. You'll need some reference to it to bring it back.

[tlhintoq]

I generally think that Form1 or whatever is the form that Program.cs launches shouldn't show. This is where I tend to stick a lot of the thinking of a program, but not the face of it.

That way it is always available, and it knows all the other forms/classes. It can then open the form "UserMain", "UserConfig", "UserPreferences"

[tlhintoq]

Alternatively, you can just make a reference to your Form1 in the Program.cs file.

public Form1 MyMainForm = new Form1();

Then launch MyMainForm as your interface.

From here forward any form can reach the main form through the program file.

Program.MyMainForm.Hide();