Question

So I have a program that takes in the user credentials via Windows form, Now through the MessageBox I am currently displaying the user input, what I am trying to do is pass it into my console application so that if the user enters in the correct credentials it then continues in the console application, how do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

you may need to add a while loop to look for a txt file in your console application. In your windows forms application, you can write a success or failure message into a txt file. (Add encryption for security) The moment you write down the information your console app should read it and continue from there.

Algorithm:
1.console application start
2. console app while loop until txt file detected
3. forms app show input screen
4. user enter credential
5. write success or failure into txt file
6. read txt file
7. continue based on credential result
8. Remove txt file

Since the form is also in the console app project (I assume it from your wordings) you can do the following

class Program
{
    public static object abc;
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        //do something here if required
        Form1 frm = new Form1();
        if (frm.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
        {
            //login success do what ever on success
            Console.WriteLine("Login success");
            Console.WriteLine(abc.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Login failure");
            Console.WriteLine(abc.ToString());
            //login failure
        }
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

and the login button click event in your login form class

 private void Login_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if(true)
        {
            Program.abc = "any success object here";
            //on successful login
        this.DialogResult= System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK;
        }
        else
        {
            Program.abc = "any failure object here";
            this.DialogResult = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel;
        }
    }

Thanks,

Esen