I can not call the forms declared in Form1.h

Hi friends, i'm a new programmer. During an application, i want to call a form by clicking somewhere. For example, when i click Help/About Menu, i want the About.h form to start.
To do this, i declare it like that;

#include "About.h"
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private: About^ aboutBox;
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aboutBox = gcnew About;
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But there are many errors when i debug,
such as;
error C3845: 'MyMessenger::Form1::aboutBox': only static data members can be initialized inside a ref class or value type

please help me about this problem. Do you suggest any other methods?

In the MSND library, i saw such an example to display user defined dialogs;

{

Form ^ f = gcnew Form();
f->ShowDialog();
}

And i changed this code to display my About.h form dialog such as;

{

Form ^ About = gcnew Form();
About->ShowDialog();
}

But, i still see the same empty dialog instead of my About.h form. So how can i display this dialog when i click About menu ?

That code isn't Visual C++. You may do better in an appropriate forum.

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Originally Posted by GCDEF

That code isn't Visual C++. You may do better in an appropriate forum.

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I found the codes in my second message from MSDN VC++ 2005 samples, and there may be some differences from 2003 version, so i don't think Microsoft is doing such a great mistake !!!

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Originally Posted by GCDEF

That code isn't Visual C++. You may do better in an appropriate forum.

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Yes, it is - but it's managed C++, so it should be moved to the Managed C++ and C++/CLI forum.

@Noreturn: The code you posted is not enough to analyze your problem. Please post more complete code - and use code tags when doing so.

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Originally Posted by gstercken

Yes, it is - but it's managed C++, so it should be moved to the Managed C++ and C++/CLI forum.

@Noreturn: The code you posted is not enough to analyze your problem. Please post more complete code - and use code tags when doing so.

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Thanks for your suggestion...