Accessing Control Form to another Form

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How to access a Control Form to Another form?
For example:

In Form1
I have a datagrid named " dgview ".

In Form2
I want to access the dgview into Form2..

"Form1.dgview.d atasource...... ...."

[arvindps]

why would you want to access datagridview in another form.

Please always quote examples and sample data

[arie]

If I have to do it I use public properties of Form1, which I access using Form2 Owner field (which is set to Form1).

I know it's not elegant and ther's probably a better way to do it but it works.

example:

Form1:

public string MyProperty
{
  get
  {
      return myTextBox.Text;
  }
  set
  {
      myTextBox.Text = value;
  }
}

then create Form2 as Form1 child form:

Form2 frm = new Form2();
frm.Show(this);

and finally in Form2, when you want to change text of your textbox:

this.Owner.MyProperty = "new text";