Windows Forms Application

[eXtreme]

How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
Windows Form based application?

Thanks,
eXtreme

[AlexS]

Re: Windows Forms Application

Make it public and visible in all classes

HTH
Alex
"eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
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> How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
> Windows Form based application?
>
> Thanks,
> eXtreme
>
>[/color]

[eXtreme]

Re: Windows Forms Application

I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
that Form is not able to see it.

Where do I check the visibility?

Thanks,


"AlexS" <salexru2000NO@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca> wrote in message
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> Make it public and visible in all classes
>
> HTH
> Alex
> "eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
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>> How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
>> Windows Form based application?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> eXtreme
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Re: Windows Forms Application

You can either pass a reference to the form to the child form, so that it
can refer to the public members.

Alternative: you can provide a static method on the form that will return
the object. You do not need a reference to the object in the calling code
to call the static method. You can just use the name of the class. This is
a Singleton.

Take a look at http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/singleton.html


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"eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
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>I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
>that Form is not able to see it.
>
> Where do I check the visibility?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> "AlexS" <salexru2000NO@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca> wrote in message
> news:uH401zRaFH A.2420@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Make it public and visible in all classes
>>
>> HTH
>> Alex
>> "eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:%23qqxaxRa FHA.3184@TK2MSF TNGP15.phx.gbl. ..[color=darkred]
>>> How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
>>> Windows Form based application?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> eXtreme
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[eXtreme]

Re: Windows Forms Application

What's the best book I can buy, which is C# based, and would teach me about
Windows Forms and how to reference objects not in the current form?

Thanks,
eXtreme

"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <nickmalik@hotm ail.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> You can either pass a reference to the form to the child form, so that it
> can refer to the public members.
>
> Alternative: you can provide a static method on the form that will return
> the object. You do not need a reference to the object in the calling code
> to call the static method. You can just use the name of the class. This
> is a Singleton.
>
> Take a look at http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/singleton.html
>
>
> --
> --- Nick Malik [Microsoft]
> MCSD, CFPS, Certified Scrummaster
> http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik
>
> Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
> representative of my employer.
> I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a
> programmer helping programmers.
> --
> "eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
> news:ueizo7RaFH A.3032@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>I made the object Public and form it is on Public but a dialog spun from
>>that Form is not able to see it.
>>
>> Where do I check the visibility?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> "AlexS" <salexru2000NO@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca> wrote in message
>> news:uH401zRaFH A.2420@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Make it public and visible in all classes
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Alex
>>> "eXtreme" <eXtreme@commun ity.nospam> wrote in message
>>> news:%23qqxaxRa FHA.3184@TK2MSF TNGP15.phx.gbl. ..
>>>> How do I make a dataset available to all forms (including dialogs) in a
>>>> Windows Form based application?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> eXtreme
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Re: Windows Forms Application

Hi eXtreme,

For winform books, I'd recommend Chris Cells's

#Windows Forms Programming in C#

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321116208/102-9824083-4872945

?v=glance

Also, there're many good tech articles in MSDN

#Windows Forms Programming in C#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/WinFormsAnchor.asp?fra

me=true

In addition, as for the
===============
how to reference objects not in the current form?
===============
you mentioned, I think it depends on the objects/data's role and
functionality in your app. Is it usefule and accessiable from all the forms
in your app? If it's a global data, I think you can consider Nick 's
suggestion on using a singleton class which hold the goblal object
references so that we can Access those objects/datas from any form or
class's code. Since your scenario is winform(clients ide app) , we don't
need to worry too much about cocurrecy issues.

Thanks,

Steven Cheng
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