C# Transfering text from one form to another....

Good to see it's fixed

Just one question, seems a long winded way to get to the text box, form2.Controls["tabControl1"].Controls["tabPage1"].Controls["panel2"].Controls["textBox5"].Text = this.textBox1.Text;  is there a specific reason for doing it this way?

Hi,
Solved the problem. It was because I was trying to pass the data from form2 directly to textBox5 on form1. However I forgot that the object textBox5 was not sitting on just on a form alone.
The object textBox5 was on a panel to which was on a tabpage  to which was on a tabcontrol. Hence why got Null error trying to reference the textBox5 directly. i.e. form2.Controls["textBox5"].Text = this.textBox1.Text; duh! :-)
as this code works fine:
form2.Controls["tabControl1"].Controls["tabPage1"].Controls["panel2"].Controls["textBox5"].Text = this.textBox1.Text;
 
Next time i'll use a dialogue form.
 
 

Hi Barry,

what are you trying to do?

I mean, why are you doing things this way, is there a specific reason.
form1.Controls["textBox1"].Text = this.textBox1.Text;

this form1.Controls["textBox1"].Text I understand but who owns this.TextBox1?

If form1 owns textbox1 then why are you doing this form1.Controls["textBox1"].Text = this.textBox1.Text;

bulkitemloadrequestform form2 = (bulkitemloadrequestform)Application.OpenForms["bulkitemloadrequestform"];

the above implies the form is open, is this correct?

Which object is throwing the error, is it the form2 or the form2.Controls["textBox5" or the this.textBox1.Text;

Just trying to get my head around the problem.