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You would either pass a REFERENCE to the Form or the actual Control INTO your class and store their internally for use...
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Here's what I have done - I had a sub that examined several controls for legal values then wrote out a record to a database to save it. &nbsp;I copied the sub to a new class and simply referenced the controls to the form as:<br />
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Form1.TextBox<br />
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This seems to work fine!
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I have a form in vb.net and want to include some classes outside the form class to perform some functions. &nbsp;Is it possible to use the controls on the form, say a textbox, in the separate class without having to duplicate the value prior to calling the class function? &nbsp;How do you address the controls directly &nbsp;from a different class?
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I have a form in vb.net and want to include some classes outside the form class to perform some functions.  Is it possible to use the controls on the form, say a textbox, in the separate class without having to duplicate the value prior to calling the class function?  How do you address the controls directly  from a different class?

You would either pass a REFERENCE to the Form or the actual Control INTO your class and store their internally for use...

Here&#39;s what I have done - I had a sub that examined several controls for legal values then wrote out a record to a database to save it.  I copied the sub to a new class and simply referenced the controls to the form as:

Form1.TextBox

This seems to work fine!

Share controls between classes

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