Changing windows

Peter Gent

This sounds very trivial to me but I couldn't figure it out.

I am trying to change to a different window in a windows application... I would use Response.redirect like when doing a web form and ASP.NET, but this is a windows form.

So any advice or examples on how to change forms would be awesome, also when changing forms do you have to pass over objects or do they stay created since it is only a web form?

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Peter Gent17y ago
Accepted answer
this is how I did it, created a new class of Compare, which is the name of the form and then just put Compare.Show(), this.Hide() ... and everything works, cheers!
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Ondrej Masita17y ago
When creating new window, set newForm.Tag = this. To show the new form, use newForm.ShowDialog(), when you want to show the previous window, you can use ((MainWindow)this.Tag).<- whatever you want, property of original window or prepared method.
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Peter Gent17y ago
I am moving from my original form (Merge) to the second form (Compare) I am just doing a simple merge of some xml files, and the second window is a little gui to help the user decide which components they would like to keep.

I have also tried to find it using this.[FindControl(), Controls, etc.] but no luck so far.
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Kirtan Patel17y ago
What is Name of Form You want to open ?

give me some More info about ur project
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Peter Gent17y ago
Thanks, that opens a new window but blank, I have already created a form and can't figure out how to get that one to be the window that I open up.

I couldn't find any value to pass into Form that would let me set the form it was equal to either.
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Kirtan Patel17y ago

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Form2 f2 = new Form2();
            f2.Show();
            this.Hide();
        }