Send data from parent form to child form

[tbreslin]

I have a project with a Parent Form and a child form and I want to send data(a field) from the parent form to the child form. Can anyone give me an example of the code to do that?

Thanks

 

[abcfantasy]

You can try:

1. Creating a parameter in the child's form constructor, and the field is passed upon creating the child.

Example:

private string s;

public ChildForm( string s2 ){
  InitializeComponent();
  s = s2;
}

OR

2. Create a public method to pass the field.

Example:

private string s;

public void SetField( string s2 ) {
  s = s2;
}

In Parent Form:

ChildForm cs = new ChildForm();
cs.SetField( "something" );

OR

3. If the Parent Form is an MDI Container, you could use the MDIChildren property. It returns a list of forms that are the parent's children.

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