Cant solve this easy problem

[Varun]

Hi Folks

I am starting to learn VB.NET. A problem that i have encountered is that i cannot seem to use the values in my textbox accross forms

for example i have 2 forms. On form2 i have a search facility that allows the user to search for the guests in a hotel. When the user has selected a guest from the datagrid the chosen guest details are placed in numerous textboxes using the databinding)
What i want to do now is when the guest clicks the Exit button, i want the text that is in the textboxes in form2 to appear in the textboxes in form1

Is there anyway i can do this?

In VB6 i could just use the form name to do this. i.
Form1.textbox1.text = Form2.textbox2.text

[William Ryan eMVP]

Set public properties in the second form, Value1 and Value2 for instance.
Then, make sure you set them before form2 closes. You'll be able to
reference them from the same code block that you called Show() or
ShowDialog() from
"Varun" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I am starting to learn VB.NET. A problem that i have encountered is that i cannot seem to use the values in my textbox accross forms.
for example i have 2 forms. On form2 i have a search facility that allows the user to search for the guests in a hotel. When the user has selected a
guest from the datagrid the chosen guest details are placed in numerous
textboxes using the databinding). What i want to do now is when the guest clicks the Exit button, i want the text that is in the textboxes in form2 to appear in the textboxes in form1.
Is there anyway i can do this??

In VB6 i could just use the form name to do this. i.e
Form1.textbox1.text = Form2.textbox2.text

[Varun]

Hi William

How would i create a public property

Public Value2 as string ???

Also i confuse by what you say when talking about referencing these values.
Are you saying i can use these varibles to fill the textboxes on form1 before i display it

i.e when i use the Form2.close on the exit buttons onclick event?

many thx

[William Ryan eMVP]

Public Property Whatever as WhateverType
Get
Return WhateverPrivateVariable
Set
WhateverPrivateVariable = Value
End Property

Then in the first form

Dim f as New SecondForm
f.ShowDialog

Dim s as WhateverType = f.Whatever
"Varun" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi William,

How would i create a public property?

Public Value2 as string ????

Also i confuse by what you say when talking about referencing these values. Are you saying i can use these varibles to fill the textboxes on form1 before i display it.
i.e when i use the Form2.close on the exit buttons onclick event??

many thx

[Sudhakar Sadasivuni[MVP]]

You can have a data propogation logic instead of making variables public or keeping the form instance in the memory to get the data from that.

Overload the form class constructors for data passage, you can pass the data via resepective objects or you can stuff all the required objects in a hashtable and pass that hashtable to second form via overloaded constructor.

"Varun" wrote:

Hi Folks,

I am starting to learn VB.NET. A problem that i have encountered is that i cannot seem to use the values in my textbox accross forms.

for example i have 2 forms. On form2 i have a search facility that allows the user to search for the guests in a hotel. When the user has selected a guest from the datagrid the chosen guest details are placed in numerous textboxes using the databinding).
What i want to do now is when the guest clicks the Exit button, i want the text that is in the textboxes in form2 to appear in the textboxes in form1.

Is there anyway i can do this??

In VB6 i could just use the form name to do this. i.e
Form1.textbox1.text = Form2.textbox2.text

[Neil Knobbe]

Hi Varun

Adding to the advise that you have been given.

Take a look at this article. It shows you one way of accessing Controls
across Forms in .NET

http://www.devcity.net/net/article.a...multipleforms2

Hope this helps with your problem.

Neil Knobbe
Visual Basic MVP
"Varun" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I am starting to learn VB.NET. A problem that i have encountered is that i cannot seem to use the values in my textbox accross forms.
for example i have 2 forms. On form2 i have a search facility that allows the user to search for the guests in a hotel. When the user has selected a
guest from the datagrid the chosen guest details are placed in numerous
textboxes using the databinding). What i want to do now is when the guest clicks the Exit button, i want the text that is in the textboxes in form2 to appear in the textboxes in form1.
Is there anyway i can do this??

In VB6 i could just use the form name to do this. i.e
Form1.textbox1.text = Form2.textbox2.text