Changing properties of control in Class module

[mhovidz]

Hello to everyone! I have a problem about changing the properties of an object in a Class module. Before in Visual Basic 6 i used this code to change the properties a control

Form1.Label1.Caption="...."

Then how about VB.Net? Please help me...

Mark Angelus V. Movida 3rd yr. BSCS St. Dominic Savio College

[JackBradford]

Never used vb6, but I believe 'caption' has been replaced with '.text'? so... form1.label1.text = "...."

[Dave Kreskowiak]

A class, unless it's the form itself, shouldn't care anything about any controls outside of it. This only worked in VB6 because, due to VERY bad practice, every form was visible to every piece of code in the app as a "global". This is, thankfully, no longer the case in VB.NET due to true OOP support. Your class should expose a status property that the form code can use to update itself. This class could even expose an event that the form could subscribe to so it get's a notification that the status has changed.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
     2006, 2007

[mhovidz]

Hello! Im trying to follow your code but! Theres no object appeared in the pop-up menu. I think theres only two (2) choices: (1) ActiveForm and (2) ControlCollection. But I don't know how to use that two properties. Thank you for helping me!

Mark Angelus V. Movida 3rd yr. BSCS St. Dominic Savio College Philippines