Cascade changed data in open forms

[Bryan]

What are some of the methods you guys have used to update data in forms
that has been changed by another open form? For example I might open
an form to edit an employee, and when I close it I would want to update
any comboboxes or listboxes that might contain a list of employees. In
MS Access I used to handle this by looping through all open forms, then
looping through all listbox or combobox controls and calling their
..requery method. I'm writing a new app in VB 2005 and was
brainstorming some ways to handle my data syncing needs. I want to do
something that is reusable throughout the app. For the example above I
know that I can explicitly update the controls, and I could even limit
this to happen only if that specific form is open. However I want a
system where i can call a sub and it knows if any open forms need to be
'refreshed'. Maybe I could keep some sort of control collection with
control names and the nature of the data that they hold. Any
suggestions to get me started?

[tomb]

Bryan wrote:

What are some of the methods you guys have used to update data in forms
that has been changed by another open form? For example I might open
an form to edit an employee, and when I close it I would want to update
any comboboxes or listboxes that might contain a list of employees. In
MS Access I used to handle this by looping through all open forms, then
looping through all listbox or combobox controls and calling their
.requery method. I'm writing a new app in VB 2005 and was
brainstorming some ways to handle my data syncing needs. I want to do
something that is reusable throughout the app. For the example above I
know that I can explicitly update the controls, and I could even limit
this to happen only if that specific form is open. However I want a
system where i can call a sub and it knows if any open forms need to be
'refreshed'. Maybe I could keep some sort of control collection with
control names and the nature of the data that they hold. Any
suggestions to get me started?

Bind the controls to the dataset. When you update in one form, the
other form will already have the updated data.

Tom