Passing variables between windows forms in VS 2010

Question

I have two forms. Form 1 allows the user to pick an employee from a dropdown combo box. That employee is then passed onto Form 2 where the user enters additional information

Answer 1

Change your code in Form2.vb for the New sub to this:

Public Sub New(ByVal Employee As String)

    ' This call is required by the designer.

    InitializeComponent()

    ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.

    MsgBox(Employee)

End Sub

If you don't call InitializeComponent(), your complete GUI is not going to render.