Access User Control from another User control in Winforms - C#

[kumarpappu]

hello -

I am newbie in winforms and c#.

i have a mainform.cs and it has 2 user controls - leftView and rightView.

In leftView.cs i am instantiating a new clientLeftView(another user control) and also the clientRightView(another user control)

Now clientLeftView has a lstClient - list box.

clientRightView has a tab control with 3 tab pages.
- first tab page has the client username, client first name, client last name.
- second tab page has the locations information and a dataviewgrid
- third tab page has the software license information and a dataviewgrid

What should happen?

When a specific client is selected from the lstClient from the clientLeftView, the respective details of the client from the clientRightView has to displayed.

Now for this purpose i am trying to access the clientRightView from clientLeftView user controls - but i am not knowing how to do it.

I tried to use the EventHandler but i am not knowing how exactly to do it.

Any tips/ideas/code are really appreciated.

Thanks,
kumar

[seishin]

hey!
I suppouse you're using some data source. so the easiest way is to make a typed data set and in it create the table(s) representing proper querries from your data source...
project->add->new item->DataSet..
in the dataset designer:
rigth click->add->table adapter
in the last page of the wizard uncheck all options.. the wizard will generate a table..
then you put na object of your dataset class on the form, then add a binding source object and set it's data soudce property to the dataset you added and the datamember property to desired table. next set controls datasource and property to the binding source and the databindings->text to proper field in the selected table

[ferguslogic]

Ahhh an easy one. Don't overthink it.

Create a class and call it something Like controlManager.
Fire events from your controls and subscribe to them and handle them in this control.

When something occurs on the left control fire an event. Handle it in the controlManager and update the right control from that class. Don't worry about talking to the controls directly. Let the class receive messages and dipatch them appropriately.

: )