Can anyone please advise how I refer to another forms controls in VB.NET

I have one Parent form and two Child forms I want to set the enable properties to false on the parent form toolbar from the child forms. In VB6 it just used to be parent.tbar.button1.enable = false. Now it’s ?????? FRUSTRAITING!!!

What I do is create an instance of the other form(s). The startup form or startup method (Sub Main) would normally instantiate 1 or more forms so you can show and hide them. Once you have an object reference to them you can do whatever you want with those forms.

Peter

Hi Vince,

   I know it's frustrating but here's what I did.

First, I declared public variables to hold references to the toolbars in my parent form.

    dim toolAdd as ToolBarButton
    dim toolDelete as ToolBarButton 'and so on

Second, in the Load event of my parent form, I set references to the toolbars

    Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        toolAdd = tbMain.Buttons(ADD_BUTTON)
        toolDelete = tbMain.Buttons(DELETE_BUTTON)
    End Sub

Once set, I can now change properties of the toolbar in my parent form just by coding:

    toolAdd.Enabled = True
    toolDelete.Enabled = False

I think the downside of this though is that you declare a number of public variables (depending on how many parent controls do you need to have access to) which can take up memory space.


Lulu

i never worked on VB.Net but i think that you can achieve this by

1-in each form that you want to refrence (i.e Form2) declare:
public Shared iForm2 as Form2

2- in the load event of that form
iForm2=ME

you are done .. you can refrence to form2 from any other form by saying: Form2.iForm2.hide forexample.

:)