Referencing control on one form from another form

Question

As you can guess, I\'m kind of new to .NET and just want to reference a control on one form from another.

Usually I would just do Form.Control.Property but that does

Answer 1

You should be able to make whatever you need to reference outside the form public. In many cases that's all that's needed.

Sometimes, it's useful to create a separate public property or method. And have the method take care of the details. For example, if you just want to able able to access the text, you could create a property something like this (in C#).

public string CustomerNo
{
    get
    {
        return txtCustomerNo.Text;
    }
    set
    {
        txtCustomerNo.Text = value;
    }
}