calling the methid from another form

[vidhi]

Hi,

 

I am migrating my vb6 project to vb.net. currently i have two forms and second form contains public function GetData , in VB6 i was calling this function from form1 as below

str =Form2.GetData

 

Form2 is the name of second form..

 

how can i do this u=in VB.net . Do not want to create object of Form2 in form1.

 

help needed...........

[PlausiblyDamp]

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=83092 might be worth a quick look as it covers the basic differences between VB6 and .Net forms.

[Nate Bross]

If you don't want to create an object of Form2 in Form1 but you need to call a method on that other object, you could do something like this using a Shared [static in C#] method:

 

Class Form2
   ....
   Public Shared Function GetData(....)
       ...
   End Function
End Class

Class Form1
   ...
   Sub Form1_Load()
         Dim DataObject as Object
         DataObject = Form2.GetData(...)
   End Sub
End Class

 

This code will work regardless of if the Classes are Forms or any other type of class. However; as PD stated there are major differences between VB6 and .NET Forms, you should look at the post he provided.

[cugone]

Define the Get Data Method as "Friend" then you can use it in the manner you already know.