How to find DataGridView of one form in another form?

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Here i'm facing problem with Datagridview control,i'm having dgvAllowance(Datagridview control name) in form2, now i want to call this datagrid in form1 button click event

How to do it

Thanks !

Posted 23-Apr-15 21:09pm

prasanna.raj

Updated 23-Apr-15 21:31pm

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Stoffy · Answer 1 · 2015-04-23T21:46:00

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have you tried to change the property "Modifiers" of data grid view?

e.g. change it from "private" to "public" and you are able to access the control with "form2.dgvAllowance"

Posted 23-Apr-15 21:46pm

Stoffy

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OriginalGriff 24-Apr-15 3:55am

That is seriously a bad idea - they are private for a reason.
What you suggest is against the principles of OOPs and makes your code a lot, lot harder to maintain or reuse.

Stoffy 24-Apr-15 4:48am

i agree to your opinion. but it always depends on your goals and is related to the complexity of the solution.

prasanna.raj 24-Apr-15 5:17am

oh it against the principles of OOPs ah, what is the best way for do this, is there any idea...i have googled by today morning for this issue...

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2015-04-23T21:47:00

Don't.
If you do that, you "lock" the design of the two forms together - so you cannot make changes to form2 without considering it's effects on form1 (and any other code which may also end up using it).

Instead, use properties of Form2 to provide the information back to form1, and methods in form2 to affect the DataGridView.