[RESOLVED] Passing Params to New Form

[fllewis]

I'm starting my first C# project and have a simple question:

I have a listview that a user can select items from. I am passing a value from the item selected to a new form. How can I pass the params from one form to another. I need to use a key from one form to open data in another, but I can't figure out how to get that value from one form to another.

Thanks,

FLL

[jmcilhinney]

A form is nothing special. It is an object just like any other. How would you normally pass data to an object that you just created? You would pass a value as an argument to the constructor, which is the most likely choice in your case, or else you would either set a property or call a method and pass an argument. Like I said, the best option in your case would be to use the constructor. You should either edit the existing constructor or write a new one that accepts an argument of the appropriate type and assigns that value to a private member variable. The default constructor would look something like this:

		public Form1()
		{
			//
			// Required for Windows Form Designer support
			//
			InitializeComponent();

			//
			// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
			//
		}

You would need to change that to something like this:

        private int recordID;

		public Form1(int recordID)
		{
			//
			// Required for Windows Form Designer support
			//
			InitializeComponent();

			//
			// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
			//
            this.recordID = recordID;
		}

[fllewis]

Thank you for the help.

Issue resolved.