How to access a control in one window form from other form

Question

Sir, I have two window forms, each form has some controls. I want to access control of one form from another form. I have tried two ways- 1- Make controls public and access them

Answer 1

You can do this in many ways...

You can declare some static getter/setter to manage a static instance of the compononent:

private static Type _myObject;
public static Type MyObject
{
   get
   {
      return _myObject;
   }
}

In this case you can access it from evrywere if you only need a specific shared object

MyClass.MyObject.Function();

Or you can define a getter for the whole class:

public class MyClass
{
   static MyClass _myClass;
   public static MyClass Instance { get { return _myClass; } }

   public MyClass()
   {
      _myClass = this;
      ...
   }

   public void Hello()
   {
      Console.WriteLine("CIAO!")
   }
} 

And getting all the methods and properties of the class:

MyClass.Instance.Hello();

You can pass also the class in a constructor, property or function, but i dislike this way...