How to go back to a previous form

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If I was to go from StaffAccountView to Room Booking. How would I be able to do this? I have looked at many different posts but cannot find anything that will work. Do I have to create a Global Variable? I've tried this from posts but it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help?

Dim ExitedForm as Form

In the exit button

ExitedForm=Me 
StaffAccountView.Show 
me.hide

On the Back Button

ExitedForm.show

I want the button to be able to go back to the previous form which is StaffAccountView

What I have tried:

I have tried the code above but it does not work since making it public still won't share across a form

Posted 18-May-17 10:10am

Member 13209355

Updated 18-May-17 16:45pm

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[no name] 18-May-17 17:04pm

Your code:
A. doesn't make any sense
B. Doesn't match the description of your problem.
And you say "the button" and "making it public" like we would any idea at all what button you are talking about or what something is being made public has anything at all to do with your code.

selvam palanisamy 23-May-17 6:57am

exact definition!!!!

Ralf Meier 19-May-17 1:43am

I'm not sure that Solution 1 matches to your Problem - therefore my question :
Your 'StaffAccountView' is called only from one form ... or is it called from various forms ? So you want to go back to this form ... ?

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Mehedi Shams · Answer 1 · 2017-05-18T16:39:00

Hi Member 13209355,

I am assuming your first form name is StaffAccountViewForm, and second form name is RoomBookingForm.

you need to pass the StaffAccountViewForm instance as a parameter to the constructor of the RoomBookingForm. In the constructor you save the form instance to a local variable of the RoomBookingForm. So the following line:

VB

Dim ExitedForm as Form 'Should not be a generic form variable.

changes to:

VB

dim ExitedForm As StaffAccountViewForm 'Should be specific to the first form

In the constructor of this form:

Public Sub New(form1 As StaffAccountViewForm)
    InitializeComponent() ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
    ExitedForm = form1
End Sub

The call from the StaffAccountViewForm changes to following:

VB

Dim frm2 As RoomBookingForm = New RoomBookingForm(Me) 'Passing the current instance of me
frm2.Show() 'Show the second form
Hide() 'Hide current form

Back button code is okay. Perhaps you would like to hide or close the second form. Hope this helps.