Passing Vb equivilent of "structs" between forms

[Chris Strug]

Hi,

I'm working with VB 2005.net and have managed to get my head around passing
values between forms by creating properties of the relevant form classes.

However, say that I have a number of values which I wish to exchange (for
example, an employee record, name, position, etc). At the minute I'm using a
seperate property to for each "field".

I was wondering, is there a way to collate all the fields into one "object"
and use that as a property? I'm reminded of a "struct" from my C days and
was wondering if VB provided anything similar?

Any and all advice, tips, links and abuse are gratefully received.

Thanks

Chris,

[Martin]

Structure / End Structure

"Chris Strug" <so********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm working with VB 2005.net and have managed to get my head around
passing values between forms by creating properties of the relevant form
classes.

However, say that I have a number of values which I wish to exchange (for
example, an employee record, name, position, etc). At the minute I'm using
a seperate property to for each "field".

I was wondering, is there a way to collate all the fields into one
"object" and use that as a property? I'm reminded of a "struct" from my C
days and was wondering if VB provided anything similar?

Any and all advice, tips, links and abuse are gratefully received.

Thanks

Chris,

[Chris Strug]

"Martin" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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Structure / End Structure

Martin,

Thank you and apologies for my laziness / myopia when it comes to the help
files.

Thanks

CS

[Martin]

You're forgiven, the helpfiles of VS2005 are totally useless ;-)

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Structure / End Structure

Martin,

Thank you and apologies for my laziness / myopia when it comes to the help
files.

Thanks

CS

[Phill W.]

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However, say that I have a number of values which I wish to exchange (for
example, an employee record, name, position, etc). At the minute I'm using
a seperate property to for each "field".
Properties of what? Each Form? Or a Class, each instance of which
represents an Employee?
I was wondering, is there a way to collate all the fields into one
"object" and use that as a property?

You could go with a Structure (the direct equivalent of struct) but,
personally, I'd jump straight in with a Class. Maybe something like this
(only with [lots] more Properties):

Class Employee
' ? Inherits BaseClassForAnyPerson

Private m_EmpNumber As String = Nothing

Public ReadOnly Property EmpNumber() As String
. . .
End Property

Public Sub LoadFrom( ByVal source As ... )
m_EmpNumber = source.Something
. . .
End Sub

Public Sub SaveTo( ByVal source As ... )
. . .
End Sub

Public Sub New( ByVal source As ... )
Me.LoadFrom( source )
End Sub

End Class

HTH,
Phill W.