Multiple Forms in VB.NET
Added on:- August/12/2007 by admin
One of the first hurdles you're going to come up against when you move from Classic VB to VB.NET is getting to grips with the new ways of dealing with forms.
Your approach to forms in VB.NET is fundamentally different and hinges on the fact that the Framework implements forms as classes, so now you need an object variable to instantiate it. This article is aimed at helping you through some of those basic steps.
Instead of loading and showing a form in the old way (eg. Form2.Show, what you have to do is create an instance of the form and you can then manipulate this form object.