Calling procedure in another form - How do you do it?

[emaduddeen]

Hi Everyone,

There are 2 forms open for the user in a school attendance program. The 1st. form is called FormBrowseClasses and the other form is called FormBrowseGrades. On the 2nd form is a procedure called PopulateTheDataGridWithData. That procedure loads data into a DataGrid.

We would like to call PopulateTheDataGridWithData from within FormBrowseGrades so the data in the DataGrid will be refreshed.

We already tried:

                ' Refresh DataGrid data on FormBrowseClasses
                '-------------------------------------------
                objFormBrowseClasses.PopulateTheDataGridWithData()

but this only runs on a new instance of the form, not the currently open form.

Can you tell us how to set this up correctly?

Thanks.

Truly,
Emad

 

[Paszt]

There are many ways, the best depends on the application architecture and many other things. This article is a good read to understand obtaining references to forms: Multiple Forms in VB.NET. Part 2 - Accessing Controls on Other Forms

 

[emaduddeen]

Hi Paszt,

Thanks for the usefull tutorial link.

I will go through it.

Truly,
Emad