New to VB.Net

[shulax26]

Hello All.

I am just starting to get me feet wet with VB.NET. I have a startup module that sets some parameters and then when that is done I want to use the old VB 6 command of

FrmMain.Show

How is this done in Vb.NET? I have looked throughout the .Net Framework and the help to figure this out and I am at a hault.

I have looked at using:
Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

what am I missing.

Thanks to all who can help me through this.

Art

[sunburnt]

This is a major difference between vb6 and .NET. In .NET, forms are truly classes, as opposed to the pseudo-classes that they were in vb6. As such, when you create a frmMain with the frmDesigner, you have created a class called frmMain. Thusly, you must create a new instance of it, A la this:

Dim myForm as New frmMain
myForm.Show

Good luck!

[Tygur]

Originally posted by sunburnt
This is a major difference between vb6 and .NET. In .NET, forms are truly classes, as opposed to the pseudo-classes that they were in vb6. As such, when you create a frmMain with the frmDesigner, you have created a class called frmMain. Thusly, you must create a new instance of it

You're both right and wrong. You do have to declare an instance of a form in VB.NET because it is a real class, but in VB6, you also needed an instance to the form. The difference is that in VB6, there was already a variable automatically declared for you as an instance to the form. In VB.NET, you have to declare it yourself.

[shulax26]

Thanks all. Once again the people of VB World rule again.

Thanks for your help. I did read something about this in the .NET framework, but I did not think it was that easy.

Thanks guys!!

Art

[Cander]

Another way to show your first form in your Sub Main is to use

Application.Run(New formclass)

This is a required way for C# I believe but optional for VB .NET.

[sunburnt]

I stand corrected