I must be missing something that I can't see or reference a form or variable from another form's BO.



In my Main form, I have a BO that acts as the parent to several other BOs that are in other forms. My question is in two fold:

a) In the employee form, when I drop a BO, how can I tell it in designer that the "ParentBusinessObject" is the one in Main Form?

b) By the same token, in this employee form, how do I access the BO in the Main form and other public variables I had set.



Somehow I'm need to tell Employee form to reference to Main form.



I think Randy had the same problem, and I had given him a solution that doesn't even work for myself.



Thanks!

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By my guess, it looks like the main form is going to be creating and showing the instances of the other forms.  There isn't a way within the designer to tell a component on one form to reference a component on another form (the form designer does not know that the other form exists.  So, you will have to set the parent programmatically.  Your best bet would be to add a parameter to your child forms' constructors that accepts the parent business object; then set the ParentBusinessObject property on the child BOs after the InitializeComponent has been called.  Then, all you need to do is pass over the parent business object when you create new instances of the child forms.

Ben, I'll look into this further probably this weekend and if I have more questions, I'll ask next week. But you gave me a good starting point!

Thanks!

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