VB.NET: Run loading wrong form

[NeoStarO1]

Okay this is my problem, qutie simple, code two opens the form of code 1 and I don't want that.
Basically what I am doing as I go through the book is im following along and creating the forms as I go along all in one project. But my problem is that i want the code to open up the approperaite
form and not the main form. How do i do this? its really a pain in the arse to delete all code then delete what I got in my form window and start over again, when later in the chapter
i need to go back to that example and add other code and then im back at repeating doing that all over again.

soooooo how do I keep the codes to that form to open that form and not the orignal first form?
here is the sample codes im using. Yes I added the line of windows stuff as well just not all that is inside the +.

TIA
Karin

Public Class frmAddition
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

+Windows Form Designer generated code


    Private Sub btnCompute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCompute.Click
	
Dim sum As Double
        sum = CDbl(txtFirstNum.Text) + CDbl(txtSecondNum.Text)
        txtSum.Text = CStr(sum)
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class frmExample3
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

+Windows Form Designer generated code

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDisplay.Click
        Dim quote1, quote2, quote As String
        quote1 = "The ballgame isn't over, "
        quote2 = "untill its over."
        quote = quote1 & quote2
        txtOutput.Text = quote & "     Yogi Berra"
    End Sub
End Class

[vass0922]

on the project name on the right side explorer, right click and hit properties. In there somewhere should be the startup properties. SEe if you can change the default to open up.

[NeoStarO1]

Yes that is what i discovered just now before reading your post, but what doesn't make sense to me that if you have several forms in a project you have to change the startup properties each time you wnat to run the code in that form.

That seems like a pain and I don't see how in the future that could be good. I am wondering its related to another known bug.

So how do I make to so I don't have to change the startup properties each time for each form i wnat to load?


edit:

Quote:

***Deleted quote*** As it is not same thing is bug but not related to this problem.

[Creosote]

You can't run code in multiple forms as standalone because only one class can have a main() method.

[vass0922]

No you don't change forms in the properties to show different forms. That setting only changes the STARTUP form.
From there you call code in the startup form to open the 2nd form.

Definately not a bug

[Creosote]

Vass--I think her frustration has to do with that fact that a Windows application automattically adds a form with a main method.

Now what I have done at times is delete the main method if I have started with a Windows app, make an empty class with a main, and then show a form. Sometimes a form may or may not need to be shown for whatever reason.

[NeoStarO1]

Quote:

Originally posted by vass0922
No you don't change forms in the properties to show different forms. That setting only changes the STARTUP form.
From there you call code in the startup form to open the 2nd form.

Definately not a bug

What do you mean call code?

Meaning i need to stay at orignal form code window and call form to second set of codes inserted in code one with a call ?

[vass0922]

well that's fine, but she's still learning programming and following a book so let her follow the book and not try to confuse things further lol.

So you gotta have one startup form, and then the startup form calls the 2nd form on some sort of event or some sort of code.

[NeoStarO1]

Quote:

Originally posted by vass0922
well that's fine, but she's still learning programming and following a book so let her follow the book and not try to confuse things further lol.

So you gotta have one startup form, and then the startup form calls the 2nd form on some sort of event or some sort of code.

First half of quote, thank you very much Vass

Okayyyyyyyyy on second part. um Huh? LOL I understand what you mean just not sure how to write that, I do know how call function works when you call something but we haven't done it yet to call another form yet. I guess im getting ahead of myself here.

I think maybe for tonight stick with the um changing the start up properties for now till i got more time to play with makeing a call from one form to another.

I do know that by the end of the course we will have to have some sort of basical fully functioning program created.

okay im off to bed. its late.

[vass0922]

for instance to show a 2nd form in my app I have something like...

Dim fSplash As New frmSplash()

fSplash.Show()
now one way to call code in teh 2nd form is to put stuff in the Form Load event .. not hte classiest code but it'll work