How to pass an argument from one Window Form to another?

[acmilan18]

Hi,

I'm trying to pass an argument from one window form to another ... but could not do it!!! Have try declaring the variable Public and Shared to no avail. Help!!!

What I am doing is to obtain an id from Form A --- (Click a button on Form A to open Form B) --- passing the argument to Form B so the Load event can look up data base on that id.

Thanks

[Asgorath]

Create properties on your forms

Kind Regards
Jorge

[jmcilhinney]

If Form A or other objects need to be able to see this value then it should be a public property of Form B, which you can set from Form A. If no other objects need to see the value then you should create a constructor for Form B that takes this value as an argument. If Form B always requires this argument then it can be the only public constructor. In this situation, I usually make the default constructor (found near the top of the auto-generated code) private and then call it from any other constructors I create. You can, of course, create a constructor and public property.