How would i go about accessing a control in another form...Like if enter text in one txtbox and click a button I want that text to show up in another textbox on another form when its loaded....do i need to make my controls public???

You dont need to make your controls public, rather use a public propery on the other form and keep a reference of the form on the main form from where you want to set that value and set value of that property which should have code to set that value ultimately to the control.

like this:

Form2 form2 = new Form2();

form2.Show();

form2.SetText = "This is some Text";

in form to Define a property like this:

public string SetText

{

get { return this.textBox1.Text; }

set { this.textBos1.Text = value; }

}

Cheers ;-)

}

you could make your controls public but that would be bad design, as suggested, use the properties to access a control.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=729974&SiteID=1

same thing as the link above and the response given already. Only thing that really needs to be modified is to access the control from the control's owner form so in the example in the link instead of doing:

get{ return this.theName; } etc....

should be:

get { return this.theControl.Text; }

set { this.theControl.Text = value; }

 

If you are trying to access the parent form control from the child form, same thing applies and you would still have to pass a reference of the parent to the child form as shown in the example

You dont need to make your controls public, rather use a public propery on the other form and keep a reference of the form on the main form from where you want to set that value and set value of that property which should have code to set that value ultimately to the control.

like this:

Form2 form2 = new Form2();

form2.Show();

form2.SetText = "This is some Text";

in form to Define a property like this:

public string SetText

{

get { return this.textBox1.Text; }

set { this.textBos1.Text = value; }

}

Cheers ;-)

}

you could make your controls public but that would be bad design, as suggested, use the properties to access a control.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=729974&SiteID=1

same thing as the link above and the response given already. Only thing that really needs to be modified is to access the control from the control's owner form so in the example in the link instead of doing:

get{ return this.theName; } etc....

should be:

get { return this.theControl.Text; }

set { this.theControl.Text = value; }

 

If you are trying to access the parent form control from the child form, same thing applies and you would still have to pass a reference of the parent to the child form as shown in the example