Question

I made a secondary form named Form2 for my application in which the user can specify a Picture, Color and Text.

Now, on this Form2, after the user presses OK button, I want to send the the particulars to Form 1 and open it up.
For eg: If the user sets the color=Red, Picture=Img.gif, Text=Hi on Form2,
then the TextBox on Form1 should display Hi in red color and a picture in the PicBox in Form1.

How is the data sent form one form to another?

Answer 1

You can do it exactly the same way you would assign values from any class to any other class.

e.g.:

var form1=new Form1();
form1.SetProps(Red,img.gif,"Hi");

Where Form1 obviously needs something like:

public void SetProps(color c, ...)  

You get the point.

A better way of doing that, specifically with forms is having a constructor in form2 which receives the arguments from Form1, and calling it before closing Form1:

i.e. in Form2:

var form1 = new Form1(Red,img.gif,"Hi");      
this.Close();
form1.Show();  

(don’t get me on the syntax..)