how to pass values from child form to parent form

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how can i pass value from child c# form to the parent form in a windows application

Posted 24-May-12 0:43am

gaurish thakkar

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This is the popular question about form collaboration. The most robust solution is implementation of an appropriate interface in form class and passing the interface reference instead of reference to a "whole instance" of a Form. Please see my past solution for more detail: How to copy all the items between listboxes in two forms[^].

Please also see other solutions in this discussion. If the application is simple enough, the solution could be as simple as declaring of some internal property in one form and passing a reference to the instance of one form to the instance of another form. For more complex projects, such violation of strictly encapsulated style and loose coupling could add up the the accidental complexity of the code and invite mistakes, so the well-encapsulated solution would be preferable.

Please see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_complexity[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_coupling[^].

—SA

Posted 5-Sep-12 10:24am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Two ways
1) use global variables store values in variables and retrive it in parent form
2) Use getter and setter properties

Posted 24-May-12 1:01am

Madhav Hatwalne

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-24T01:01:00

Depends on how you show your forms.
If you use ShowDialog then it is easy: just create a public property in the child form, and access it directly in the parent:

C#

ChildForm child = new ChildForm();
child.MyProperty = "Hello";
child.ShowDialog();
Console.WriteLine(child.MyProperty);

If you use Show instead then it is slightly harder - you have to create property and an event, or an event and a custom EventArgs

In the child form:

C#

public partial class frmChild : Form
   {
   public event EventHandler Changed;

   protected virtual void OnChanged(EventArgs e)
      {
      EventHandler eh = Changed;
      if (eh != null)
         {
         eh(this, e);
         }
      }

   private void DoSomethingToChangeData()
      {
      OnChanged(null);
      }
   }

The asign to eh is in case the handler changes between null check and exec (unlikely, but possible)
The null check is to ensure there is a handler. If not, better to ignore it gracefully, than to rely on the thrown exception (NullReferenceException)

In the Parent form:

C#

private void ShowChildForm()
    {
    frmChild fd = new frmChild();
    fd.Changed += new EventHandler(Changed);
    fd.Show();
    }
private void Changed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    frmChild fc = sender as frmChild;
    if (fc != null)
       {
       Console.WriteLine(fc.MyProperty);
       }
    }

Mohammad A Rahman · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-24T02:57:00

Solution 5

It might be helpful,
Sharing data among Windows Forms[^]

:)

Posted 24-May-12 2:57am

Mohammad A Rahman

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Shahin Khorshidnia 24-May-12 9:47am

Thank you for Link

Mohammad A Rahman 24-May-12 9:54am

:)

Mohamed Mitwalli · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-24T01:08:00

Hi ,
See This Example Will give you idea maybe it useful for you

C#

 //Child Form
public Form2()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}
Label lbl1 = new Label();
Timer tim1 = new Timer();
public Form2(Timer tim , Label lbl)
{
    InitializeComponent();
    tim1 = tim;
    lbl1 = lbl;
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.Close();
}
private void Form2_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
    lbl1.Text = "Reading from Form2";
    tim1.Start();
}
//Parent Form
public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Form2 frm = new Form2(timer1,label1);
    frm.Show();
}

Best Regards
M.Mitwalli