Passing data in a text box from one form to another?

[dollarbillg]

I have a newbie question.
I have a text box on a form and a button. When the button is clicked I need the data from form1.txtBox.Text on form1 to be inserted into form2.txtBox2.Text.

Any and all help is welcome.

Thanks

 

[dollarbillg]

Never Mind....

 

[harshaddesai]

The Source text box (which is going to provide tha data) should be made Public Shared ...
then in the receiving form
you can say ...
SourceTextBox = recForm.rectextBox

 

[Schweiger]

harshaddesai is right... you can do so. I would say there are different scenarios which say the way how you should go...

scenarios
- Form1 creates Form2 and displayes it
Declare the Formvariable of Form2 as private in Form1

Public Class Form1
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
    Private frmForm2 as New Form2
    ...
    Private Sub Button1_Click(...
	frmForm2.Textbox2.text = me.Textbox1.text
    End Sub

- Form2 was created elsewhere...
You have to get a reference to Form2 or to the Textbox2 on Form2...
There are several possibilities to do that, which I don't even know
all of them
I think the most common way is to create a Property on Form1 which
holds the reference to Form2:

Public Class Form1
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
    Private frmForm2 as Form2
    ...
    Public Property Form2() As Form2
      Get
        Return frmForm2
      End Get
      Set(ByVal Value As Form2)
        frmForm2 = Value
      End Set
    End Property

    Private Sub Button1_Click(...
	frmForm2.Textbox2.text = me.Textbox1.text
    End Sub

Now you have to initialize the Form2-property of Form1
at the moment when you create Form1. This way you have
to have a reference to both Forms somewhere in your code.

hope this helps
Andreas