newbie needs help. how do you call another form in a form?

[watchmen77]

in vb6, you just type say formmain.control
from formwhatever,
vb.net won't let you do it, i can pass formmain as a class into formwhatever and call that, but what if i just want to call formmain.control from formwhatever without pass in a formmain?
any way to do that?

[hellswraith]

You will always need a reference to the form of the control you want to change.

You can create a static class (called a module for VBers) that holds references to forms. When your form is created (in the constructor) send a reference over to module. That module should then store that. You would then be able to access that module from other forms to get your reference.

[watchmen77]

Originally posted by hellswraith
You will always need a reference to the form of the control you want to change.

You can create a static class (called a module for VBers) that holds references to forms. When your form is created (in the constructor) send a reference over to module. That module should then store that. You would then be able to access that module from other forms to get your reference.

great. thanks a lot.