Re: How to get a reference to main form in a Windows Form 2.0 Application?

jldearmas@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I had been expecting something like Delphi has in VCL but this is valid too.

Yeah, the overall architecture of WinForms is a lot like VCL, but
there are a lot of differences in the details.

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