Passing current record

[Collieman]

Hi,
I am returning to programming after a long absence (last real work done in VB5.0). I'm trying to do a small customer management project. I'm starting off with a DataGridView on one form showing a reduced number of fields. When the customer is selected a second form gives the full details.
I struggling to find a clean way of passing the selected record to the second form.
Both forms are using the same dataset.

Any ideas (I know it's probably too easy, I spent too many with GW and Quick basic).

Regards

Luke

[cyberM]

I think that I developed something what you can use.
Take this code on this adress.
https://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/...7492&lngWId=10

[Seraph]

write a Public Sub New(ByRef dgvi As DataGridViewItem) on your second form with a DataGridViewItem(?) object to pass.
Then, just pass the selected datagridviewitem from the datagridview, and then extract the appropriate information from the appropriate columns/field/index.
Then when you want to launch the form, do:
Dim frm as New Form(DataGridView.SelectedItems(0))

I may be totally wrong, but I think if you pass it byref it will update the datagridview as well.
I may be wrong on that tho.

[jmcilhinney]

Follow the CodeBank link in my signature and check out my thread entitled Update Grid Row in Dialogue

[jmcilhinney]

I may be totally wrong, but I think if you pass it byref it will update the datagridview as well.
I may be wrong on that tho.

That would only be true if the type of the parameter was a value type. In this case it's a reference type, so you would only need to pass by reference if you intended to assign a new object to the parameter within the method.

[Collieman]

Follow the CodeBank link in my signature and check out my thread entitled Update Grid Row in Dialogue

Just the ticket, many thanks for the suggestions.

Regards

Luke