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Chris O. - 03 Oct 2004 19:26 GMT

What's the Visual Basic.NET equivalent to VB6's Form.Show command?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 03 Oct 2004 20:41 GMT

"Chris O." <coz1978@sbcglobal.net> schrieb:

> What's the Visual Basic.NET equivalent to VB6's Form.Show
> command?

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Dim f As FooForm()
f.Show()
///

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Chris O. - 03 Oct 2004 20:50 GMT

Great, thanks. :)

> "Chris O." <coz1978@sbcglobal.net> schrieb:
> > What's the Visual Basic.NET equivalent to VB6's Form.Show
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> f.Show()
> ///

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Chris O. - 04 Oct 2004 00:10 GMT

When I try this, I get,
'show' is not a member of 'System.Array'.

Here's the code:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim f As Form1()

f.show()

End Sub

in the solution explorer, my form name is form1.

> Great, thanks. :)
> > "Chris O." <coz1978@sbcglobal.net> schrieb:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> > f.Show()
> > ///

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Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] - 04 Oct 2004 02:36 GMT

Chris,
You defined f to be an array of Form1, if you want f to be a single
instance, do not include the () after Form1.

Also you may want to create an instance of Form1 before you attempt to show
it.

Something like:

> Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> End Sub

NOTE: When you are creating an instance (New Form1) you can either include
or exclude the parentheses.

Dim f As New Form1()
f.show()

There is also a ShowDialog that will show the form Modal (wait for the form
to be closed). Form.Show shows the form modeless, meaning both forms
continue being input capable. ShowDialog also returns one of the
DialogResult values so you can tell if the user clicked the Ok, Cancel or
other "special" buttons on your dialog box (form).

Dim f As New Form1()
Dim result As DialogResult
result = f.ShowDialog()

Hope this helps
Jay

> When I try this, I get,
> 'show' is not a member of 'System.Array'.
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
>> > f.Show()
>> > ///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 04 Oct 2004 10:32 GMT

Errata:

> \\\
> Dim f As FooForm()

... should read '... As New FooForm()'. Sorry for providing the wrong code.

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