Showing a form in VB .NET

[Rick]

I'm new to VB .NET and having trouble displaying a form using a button on the
startup form.

In VB4 I simply used the following to load a form as modal when a button was
clicked.

formName.Show 1

I can't seem to do the same in VB .NET.

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Rick,

I believe you are looking for

formName.ShowDialog()

formName.Show() will display it as modeless

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Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Jim Hughes]

VB6 and below automatically created a default instance of a form. VB.Net
does not.

You have to declare it and then instantiate it

Dim myForm as formName = New formName
formName.Show
"Rick" <Ri**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32**********************************@microsof t.com...

I'm new to VB .NET and having trouble displaying a form using a button on
the
startup form.

In VB4 I simply used the following to load a form as modal when a button
was
clicked.

formName.Show 1

I can't seem to do the same in VB .NET.

[Cor Ligthert]

Rick,

To make both previous messages one
Dim myForm as New formName
formName.showdialog

Cor

[Jerod]

Since the main form is already open,and does not have default instance
defined, how do you access its controls from a sub from?

For instance form1 is my main form, and I create from2, and show it from
form1. Then from from2 I want to change a label text on form1.

Thanks in advance.

Jerod

"Cor Ligthert" wrote:

Rick,

To make both previous messages one
Dim myForm as New formName
formName.showdialog

Cor