How do I make button open an existing form in vs.net project?

[joeybagadonutz]

Hi,

 

I have just switched to vs.net. In visual basic 6.0, using windows forms, if I had a button on a form for example, and wanted to program that button to open another form in the project, I would just simply put in the code: MyForm.show and it would open the windows form that I created and saved in the project.

 

In vs.net, using vb.net, if I do this, it says that myForm is not declared. Why do I have to declare a form in the project that already exists? Do i really have to declare all the forms that are in my project to just open them? If so, how exactly do I do this. I have tried to dim a new form, but it opens a form that is blank and not the form i already made in my project What am I missing here? I want to simply open my forms when users click on buttons, not new forms generated on the fly, EXISTING forms.

 

This seems like such a simple thing to do but I have literally tried for hours to find something on this and can't. vs.net documentation is really shabby on simple things. Please help, thanks.

 

-JBD

[Iceplug]

Have you tried:

Dim Fnum As Form
Fnum = New MyForm
Fnum.Show()

:)

[joeybagadonutz]

Okay, thanks. You helped enough where I at least got it to work.

 

this works:

 

dim myform as new myform

myform.show()

 

Still though, it requires an extra line of code to dim my forms, sort of a pain. Why did they do that?

 

Should I create a module and dim all my forms like this so I dont have to do this everytime I want to open one of my forms?

 

thanks.

[mutant]

If im not mistaken, VB6 had to create a default instance of the form for you. One needs to be created in VB.NET too, but you yourself have to create that instance.