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

You don't even have to use the InitializeComponent or New functions.

I have made an example to show how easily this can be done.

Clicking "Show Form" results in the below:

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Form2.Show()
End Sub

which is simply used to display the second form.

By clicking "Pass Data" results in the following code:

Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
    Form2.Label1.Text = TextBox1.Text
End Sub

As shown above you can pass the data directly from control to control. The same idea can be used with variables too.