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Rory · Sep 10th, 2005, 2:51 PM

You could declare your main form's instance as a public shared variable: if your project runs the main form, you'll need to create global a main() routine for startup, i.e.

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Public Shared ifrmSomeForm As frmSomeForm

Public Sub Main()
        ifrmSomeForm = New frmSomeForm ' We create the instance here as opposed to in the variable declaration as that could lead to multithreading problems
        ifrmSomeForm.Show()
        ' Insert application shutdown code here
End Sub

Then wherever you are, the main instance of the form frmSomeForm can be accessed via ifrmSomeForm without worrying about race conditions etc.

Sep 10th, 2005, 2:51 PM	#9
Rory Expert Programmer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London Posts: 542 Rep Power: 4	You could declare your main form's instance as a public shared variable: if your project runs the main form, you'll need to create global a main() routine for startup, i.e. (Toggle Plain Text) Public Shared ifrmSomeForm As frmSomeForm Public Sub Main() ifrmSomeForm = New frmSomeForm ' We create the instance here as opposed to in the variable declaration as that could lead to multithreading problems ifrmSomeForm.Show() ' Insert application shutdown code here End Sub Public Shared ifrmSomeForm As frmSomeForm Public Sub Main() ifrmSomeForm = New frmSomeForm ' We create the instance here as opposed to in the variable declaration as that could lead to multithreading problems ifrmSomeForm.Show() ' Insert application shutdown code here End Sub Then wherever you are, the main instance of the form frmSomeForm can be accessed via ifrmSomeForm without worrying about race conditions etc.