hi Friends,
I want to know how to pass variables from one form to another.

Thank You in advance.
Any help is welcomed

JAININ

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JAININ

The best way is to define a public property on one form:

public string TheProperty
{
  get { return _myProperty; }
}

Then you can call it from the other form, provided you have a reference to the other form:

MyForm form = (MyForm)formReference;
Console.WriteLine(form.TheProperty);

If this doesn't help then you'll have to be more specific in your requirements.


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

I think I got it. Thank u for your help.

JAININ

I m not getting it,
Can you help me?
Actually i have an Mdi form and from it different form opens,
So i want that only 1 instance of any form is open at a given time.For that I m using a boolean variable in Mdi form. Now i want to access that boolean variable in another form which is a child form of Mdi form.
Can you solve my problem?

Thank You

JAININ

Inside your MdiParent you will have a property, something like this:

public bool IsFormOpen
{
  get { return isFormOpenVariable; }
}

In your child you will do the following:

MyMdiParent parent = (MyMdiParent)this.MdiParent;
if( !parent.IsFormOpen )
{
  // whatever
}


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

I m still not getting it,
I want to change the value of the boolean variable in the childform and return that changed value to the MdiParent form when the child form closes,
but i get the following error.

Error 1 Property or indexer 'WindowsApplication1.MDIopeningpage.frmload' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only

Thank You.

JAININ

Right, you didn't say you wanted to 'change' the value, just 'access' it, so what I wrote above is a read only property.

public bool MyProperty
{
  get
  {
    return true;
  }
  set
  {
    // do something with 'value' here.
    Console.WriteLine(value);
  }
}

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

I m still not getting it.

I want to change the value of the boolean variable of the Mdi form on the child form and return the changed value of the boolean variable back to the Mdi form.

Thank You for helping me

I'm not sure what you are having trouble with. My previous example above shows you how to write a property setter, so you can write the the property - you then store the 'value' in whatever internal variable you want to.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

The trouble is:: I have a MDI parent form and a child form for Suppplier details. Ok. Now when i first open the supplier form it opens normally and when I try yo open it again at that time it says that the form is already open.
For this i have used a boolean variable whose value is get to true once the form is opened. and that boolean variable is declared in Mdi Parent form. So now i want that when i close the Supplier form the boolean variable value should again be false.

But when I close the supplier form and try to open it again at that time also I get the message that your form is already opened. i.e.the value of the boolean variable is true only.

I want to get rid of this problem

Thank you in advance.