How to inherit a child form from the parent form

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Hi friends,
I have a number of forms. There data are different from each other. There are some functions that are common to all the forms. What I want is to make a parent form and place the common code there. Please help me how can I create a common parent for all the forms.
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Posted 3-Feb-11 10:03am

J imran

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-02-03T10:10:00

Create a new class like this:

C#

public partial class FormBase : Form
{
  // put your common data members/methods in here
}

Then, you can inherit this form in all of your other forms, like this:

C#

public partial class MyForm1 : FormBase
{
}

Make sure you give each one a default constructor so you can still work with them in the designer.

EDIT =========

Why was my answer voted a 1? That makes no sense at all.

Brijesh Kr · Answer 2 · 2011-03-27T18:43:00

Solution 4

First Create a form name it Parent, identifier should be Public:

C#

public partial class Parent : Form
{
 // You can have Protected variables and Methods
}

Now you can make child form name child

C#

public partial class child : Parent
{
 // you can use all protected variables and methods of Parent class
}

Posted 27-Mar-11 18:43pm

Brijesh Kr

Updated 29-Mar-11 0:47am

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#realJSOP 29-Mar-11 5:26am

This is exactly the same I answer I provided more than a month ago, except your code won't compile because you're not using Parent instead of parent in the child form definition.

[no name] 29-Mar-11 6:48am

Thanks for sugession

Henry Minute · Answer 3 · 2011-02-03T10:13:00

Solution 3

Here[^] is a Walkthrough of what Microsoft call Visual Inheritance.

See if that helps.

Posted 3-Feb-11 10:13am

Henry Minute

Yusuf · Answer 4 · 2011-02-03T10:07:00

Solution 1

All you need to learn about Form Inheritance[^]

C#

public class Form2 : Namespace1.Form1

Posted 3-Feb-11 10:07am

Yusuf