Loading another form

vedran

16y5.9k

Hello :)

I have several windows/forms in my application. I would like to do simple thing. Make a button on one form that will load and display another form. Simple as that.

I have tried the following, but with no success:
The following code is located in the start window, the one that start first when the application is loaded

 Menu menu = new Menu();
 menu.show();

The problem is with the menu.show();
It is underlined in red with the following error.

 Error	1	'FIFI.Dobrodosli' does not contain a definition for 'show' and no extension method 'show' accepting a first argument of type 'FIFI.Dobrodosli' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)	C:\Users\vedran\Desktop\Development\C#\Children Browser Projekat\WPF Start\Ver 2.6 - Play Logic Devised\FIFI\FIFI\Window1.xaml.cs	462	25	FIFI

When I type menu and I hit period, I should get a Show method, but its not there.

I dont know, this might be totally wrong way to do this thing. What is the easiest way to accomplish it?

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ajay raju16y ago
Accepted answer
hi friend,
first create a object to the form (which form u want to show/display), this code write under button
Form2 f2 = new form2(); // write ur Form name in place of Form2
f2.Show();
(or)
and u set a property of Form : IsMdiContainer is true (which is parent) and to create objects of child forms.
Try this sample code and i hope u success. if my code helps please mark as a accept answer.
Thanks.
vedran16y ago
Yes, I figured it out. I was using reserved name.

:)

mjk pradeep16y ago

Firstly, As per my knowledge first step class your using "Menu" is a predefined control . so what i guess is you can't use same name for your form .,

Menu menu = new Menu(); //Correct
menu.show();  //Error -- u can't use show dialogue

try this.., Rename Menu <=> menu
menu menu1 = new menu(); //Correct
menu1.show(); //Correct

vedran16y ago
Yes, something is wrong with my form. I cant get it to display .show() method.

It works on other forms. Thank you for your answers, I will try to figure out this problem.
Dipa Ahuja16y ago
There is something wrong in your form..

try to do one thing .. add new form and copy your all content of form "menu" to the new form..

then see its working or not..

else put you content of menu form here..