To access a text field from another form

[Sanket07]

Hello,
I am working with Visual Studio, dot net forms.
I have 2 forms Form X & Form Y.
I am opening Form Y on Form X using ShowDialog(). Now what I am looking for is a way to access a text field on Form Y(Called form) to Form X(Calling form).
Please help me in this situation.

[Matellis]

Hi,
Can you tell us with some details what you exactly want to achieve?
Thanks,

[Howard]

For a ShowDialog form I mostly use simple "friend" fields in the showdialog
form, that gives me the most flexibility. this is not correct but I do this
only by one time to use ShowDialog forms.

[Alphonsus]

Use the overload on ShowDialog() and pass in the calling form as the owner.
Now from the called form you can access a public member on the calling form.

Dim owner = TryCast(Owner, Form1)

If owner IsNot Nothing Then
'// Do something cool with the form
End If

I think this will help you!

[AmolP]

what you're
trying to do could be done for free by Access by setting up a query
containing the tables for both forms - they must be related, surely?

[Santinos]

When you want to open the second form, from say a button click, use
code like this on the button in the first form:

DoCmd.OpenForm stDocName, acNormal, , , , , Me.boxFID

Where stDocName is the name of the second form and Me.boxFID is the
field that contains the value you want to pass.
The commas are all needed, they are for different options when opening
a form.

Then use code like this in the 'on open' event of the second form:

If Not IsNull(Me.OpenArgs) Then
Me.boxFinder.Value = Me.OpenArgs
Me.Requery
End If

Me.OpenArgs will be equal to whatever value you passed from the event
in the first form.

[Geo3213]

form2.text1.text=text1.text

assuming that the command will be fired from the current form