VB to .NET Mental Migration Problems

[KKW]

Hi!

Having programmed primarily in VB6(3,4,5), moving to .Net has had it's challenges!

Specifically, in VB6 I use:

In a module:
Public Frm As Form

in Form1:
Set Frm = New Form2
Frm.Show
Frm.List1.Additem (what-ever)

The above works perfectly.

But in VB.Net 2005, how is this accomplished?

Can anyone point me the right direction?

Thanks!

[HairyMonkeyMan]

In vb.net that would probably be like this:

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim frm As New frmList
        frm.Show()
        frm.ListBox1.Items.Add("Hi")
    End Sub

[javajawa]

This depends how you want to use the form. For example, I often you the following structure so I can control exactly how my forms are displayed

  Private Withevents mFwhatever as frmWhatever

  Private Sub ShowForm()
    If mFwhatever is Nothing then
      mFwhatever = new frmWhatever
      'Any preperation here
      mFwhatever.Show()
    Else
      mFwhatever.Focus()
    End If
  End Sub

  Private sub frmMain_Closing(.....
    'Shut down any open child forms
    If mFwhatever IsNot Nothing Then mFwhatever.close
  End Sub

  Private Sub mFwhatever_closed(.......
    mFwhatever = nothing
  End Sub

Hope that helps!