[Fish-E]

Hello

I'll apologise in advance that I am quite new to C#, basically I'm trying to create a basic program that passes a string between two forms and a class. I thought I had it working, by using some code I found on the internet but when I run the program instead of giving me the input name (ie "John") it returns SimplePassing.YourName (SimplePassing is the name of the Visual C# 2010 express project and YourName is the name of the class in class1).

Here is the code that I've done;

Class1.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace SimplePassing
{
    public class YourName
    {
        public string NameMessage(string givenName) 
            
            //Creates a string called NameMessage that 
            //returns Your Name is and the value of givenName
        {
            return "Your name is" + givenName;
        }

        private string TheMessage; 
        
        //This is just an empty string called TheMessage. 
        //This will be used in the MyProperty code, it will be set equal to the value of RealName.MyProperty

        public string MyProperty {
            get { return TheMessage; } //gets the value of TheMessage (at the start this will be blank)
            set { TheMessage = value; } //sets TheMessage to be equal to the value of RealName.MyProperty
        }
    }
}

Form1.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace SimplePassing
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            YourName RealName = new YourName();
            string returnedMessage; //This is a string which will store the contents of RealName.MyProperty

            RealName.MyProperty = txtInputName.Text; 
            //Sets the name of RealName.MyProperty to 
            //be equal to the contents of the text box
            returnedMessage = RealName.MyProperty; //Sets returnedMessage to be equal to RealName.MyProperty

            Form2 frm2 = new Form2();
            frm2.obj2 = RealName;
            frm2.Show();
            this.Hide();
        }
    }
}

Form2.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace SimplePassing
{
    public partial class Form2 : Form
    {
        public Form2()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public YourName obj2;

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            txtYourName.Text = Convert.ToString(obj2);
        }
    }
}

[JackOfAllTrades]

Where you're just starting out, you should learn the right way to do it from the start.

[tlhIn`toq]

How do I?

[*]Q: ...get Form 'A' to make a change or talk to Form 'B'

Spoiler

NOTE: Don't try to access GUI controls across forms. Its wrong. Nobody will hire you if you do this sort of crap. It violates every guideline for 'black box' programming, Separation of Responsibility, loose binding of components, and event driven programming. Read the tutorials and learn to do it right the first time so you don't develop bad habits that you just have to un-learn later.
A:

• See this thread for the simplest of example code between two forms.
  
  The tutorials below actually teach and explain it further.
  
• Passing values between forms/classes
  
• Bulding an application - Part 1
  
• Building an application - Part 2
  
• Quick and easy custom events
  
• Delegates, Lambdas and Events
  
• http://www.codeproje...g-Windows-Forms

[Fish-E]

I apologise for not using the search function, I was in a hurry when I posted earlier.

Thank you for the links. I'll have a look at them and if I have any further problems I'll post here.