Wake up control

[nondos]

Hi

I have solution with two projects, one of them is a user control
I created public shared sub in the user control which mean to wake up the
control and start doing somthing, but when i try to call it from the main
project i get error message
"Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method
or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class."
What can i do?

Thanks

[rowe_newsgroups]

On Aug 20, 10:52 am, "nondos" <[e-mail]:

Hi

I have solution with two projects, one of them is a user control
I created public shared sub in the user control which mean to wake up the
control and start doing somthing, but when i try to call it from the main
project i get error message
"Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method
or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class."
What can i do?

Thanks

If you have to "wake up" each instance of the user control you need to
keep a reference to each instance in a shared variable (I would use a
dictionary or hashtable myself). You can add an instance to the list
of in the UserControl's constructor. To remove the instance reference,
I would have the UserControl implement IDisposible and remove itself
from the list in it's Dispose method (be sure to call dispose manually
- don't wait for the GC to do it for you). Then in your shared "wake
up" method you can loop through the list of instances and wake them
up.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

[nondos]

Thanks

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On Aug 20, 10:52 am, "nondos" <[e-mail]:

>Hi

I have solution with two projects, one of them is a user control
I created public shared sub in the user control which mean to wake up the
control and start doing somthing, but when i try to call it from the main
project i get error message
"Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared
method
or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class."
What can i do?

Thanks

If you have to "wake up" each instance of the user control you need to
keep a reference to each instance in a shared variable (I would use a
dictionary or hashtable myself). You can add an instance to the list
of in the UserControl's constructor. To remove the instance reference,
I would have the UserControl implement IDisposible and remove itself
from the list in it's Dispose method (be sure to call dispose manually
- don't wait for the GC to do it for you). Then in your shared "wake
up" method you can loop through the list of instances and wake them
up.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe