Listening to Events in Main Form from Another Form in C#

Question

I have an application that has a main form and uses an event handler to process incoming data and reflect the changes in various controls on the main form. This works fine.

Answer 1

class SecondForm
{
  private FirstForm firstForm;

  public SecondForm()
  {
    InitializeComponent();
    // this means unregistering on form closing, uncomment if is necessary (anonymous delegate)
    //this.Form_Closing += delegate { firstForm.SomeEvent -= SecondForm_SomeMethod; };
  }

  public SecondaryForm(FirstForm form) : this()
  {
    this.firstForm = form; 
    firstForm.Timer.Tick += new EventHandler(Timer_Tick);
  }

  // make it public in case of external event handlers registration
  private void Timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    // now you can access firstForm or it's timer here
  }
}

class FirstForm
{
  public Timer Timer
  {
    get
    {
      return this.the_timerl
    }
  }

  public FirstForm()
  {
    InitializeComponent();
  }

  private void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    new SecondForm(this).ShowDialog(); // in case of internal event handlers registration (in constructor)
    // or
    SecondForm secondForm = new SecondForm(this);
    the_timer.Tick += new EventHandler(secondForm.Timer_tick); // that method must be public
  }