Open a windows form

[philiop]

Hi,

I am relatively new to programming so this may sound dumb.

I previously made a small excel addin using visual basic. I have recently started trying to use visual studio and wanted to convert my addin into visual studio.

I am having difficulty in opening a windows form if its even possible. I added a windows form and tried to open in just using form1.show() and I am getting Reference to a Non Shared object requires an object reference

How do i resolve this or is it actually not possible?

Thanks in advance

Just realised i posted this in the wrong forum. Apologies. If anyone could move it would be fantastic :S

 

[demausdauth]

You need to work with a reference to the form not the form itself. When you create a new form in VS you are making the blueprint for a form. In your code you actually have to create an instance of what the blueprint represents then you can do stuff with it.

'Create the instance
Dim myInstance as New form1

'Do something with the instance
myInstance.Show()

 

[philiop]

Your an absolute star. Thank you