Re: accessing a field of another class within same namespace

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Thanks Jon,

I instantiated it, but the value which has been assigned does not appear.
What I did was to make it static public, but ideally I would just
like to access it with the value that it has (not globally).

Thanks,

Carlos.

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Carlos <ch_sanin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am trying to access a public field of another form class within
>> the same namespace. The field is public
>
> Oh dear - you should consider making it private, backing a public
> property.
>
>> , what is the best way
>> to access it from a different class? I defined as
>> private MyNameSpace.Form1 cForm1;
>>
>> and I am trying to use it later as
>>
>> TextBox.Text = cForm1.TextBox.Text;
>>
>> I see the properties, but I have a warning telling me that cForm1 is
>> never
>> assigned, and that its value will always be null. How can I avoid that?
>
> Simple - give it a value. I think you're missing that you need an
> instance of the form whose field you want to change. You need to ask
> yourself *which* form you want to use the field of. There could be
> several forms of the same type being shown at once (at least
> conceptually).
>
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