Need basic .NET dialog/form help

[Elliot B.]

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015.

 

 

When I click on the blue Change link, I want it to open Form2 (below) in the center and on top of Form1 (above)

 

 

Any ideas?

 

I am a beginner - go easy on me!

[LimeMaster]

Try this, assuming I understood what you meant:

            Form2 frm2 = new Form2();
            frm2.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
            frm2.Show();

 

 

[Elliot B.]

59 minutes ago, LimeMaster said:

Try this, assuming I understood what you meant:

            Form2 frm2 = new Form2();
            frm2.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
            frm2.Show();

 

 

Where do I put that?

 

If I double-click on the blue Change link, it goes to:

Private Sub LinkLabel2_LinkClicked_2(sender As Object, e As LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles LinkLabel2.LinkClicked

End Sub

If I paste your code between there, it throws a lot of failures, so I guess I'm pasting it in the wrong location?

[BinaryData]

@Elliot B. - Think! Where should you put it? Part of learning how to code is figuring it out!

[Dick Montage]

Ignoring the above who seems to preach what he should have heeded less than 6 months back...

 

I'm feeling that you may be missing some basic knowledge here.  Care to paste either the errors or basic source?

[Elliot B.]

5 minutes ago, Nik L said:

Ignoring the above who seems to preach what he should have heeded less than 6 months back...

 

I'm feeling that you may be missing some basic knowledge here.  Care to paste either the errors or basic source?

 

Error    BC32017    Comma, ')', or a valid expression continuation expected.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    159    Active

Error    BC30800    Method arguments must be enclosed in parentheses.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    159    Active

Error    BC30451    'frm2' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    159    Active
  
Error    BC30451    'frm2' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    160    Active

Error    BC30451    'frm2' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    161    Active

Error    BC30109    'Form2' is a class type and cannot be used as an expression.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    159    Active
  
Error    BC30037    Character is not valid.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    159    Active

Error    BC30037    Character is not valid.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    160    Active

Error    BC30037    Character is not valid.    WindowsApplication1    X:\LodarGUITest\WindowsApplication1\Form1.vb    161    Active

[Andre S. Veteran]

Those are syntactic errors, not "throwing failures" ("throwing an error" or more precisely an "exception" is a run-time behavior, i.e. something that the code does when running - here the error happens at compile-time.) Visual Studio should underline these with red squigglies like in Word. If you double-click the error in the "Error List" window, it'll point you directly to it: it also gives you the line number where the error is. If you still can't figure it out, paste the offending code here.

 

Note that you are using Visual Basic and that LimeMaster gave you C# code - you didn't specify which language you were using. You need to remove the semi-colons at the end of the lines and possibly there are other small discrepancies.

[LimeMaster]

9 minutes ago, Elliot B. said:

Where do I put that?

 

If I double-click on the blue Change link, it goes to:

    Private Sub LinkLabel2_LinkClicked_2(sender As Object, e As LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles LinkLabel2.LinkClicked


	    End Sub

If I paste your code between there, it throws a lot of failures, so I guess I'm pasting it in the wrong location?

Oh, so you're using VB not C#. Oops, my mistake:

 

Click the linkLabel and paste this:

 Form2.Show()

Then double click Form2 and paste this:

 Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent

 

[Elliot B.]

3 minutes ago, LimeMaster said:

Oh, so you're using VB not C#. Oops, my mistake:

 

Click the linkLabel and paste this:

 Form2.Show()

Then double click Form2 and paste this:

 Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent

 

Much more like it - thank you a million!

[Dick Montage]

Damn, I take one phone call and miss all the fun.

[BinaryData]

8 minutes ago, Nik L said:

Damn, I take one phone call and miss all the fun.

Such is life... is it not?

[Elliot B.]

17 minutes ago, Nik L said:

Damn, I take one phone call and miss all the fun.

If it helps, the box isn't opening in the center of Form1

 

And for bonus stars, how do I "lock" Form1 until Form2 is closed?

[LimeMaster]

1 minute ago, Elliot B. said:

If it helps, the box isn't opening in the center of Form1

 

And for bonus stars, how do I "lock" Form1 until Form2 is closed?

Is Form1 at the center of the screen? Because if it is, then use the lazy CenterScreen method. 

[Andre S. Veteran]

59 minutes ago, Elliot B. said:

And for bonus stars, how do I "lock" Form1 until Form2 is closed?

Use ShowDialog instead of Show.

[Elliot B.]

You guys are legends

[FloatingFatMan]

On 10/12/2015, 08:53:40, Elliot B. said:

You guys are legends

Seeing as you're just getting started, do you mind a suggestion?

 

Drop VB.NET and learn C# instead. I know it might seem the easier option, and as far as .NET goes, just as capable as C#, but learning the syntax of C# will help you much more moving forward than VB will, due to its similarities with things such as Java, Javascript and C.

 

You'll also find far more learning materials available in C# than you will in VB...

 

[Andre S. Veteran]

And you get paid more 

 

That said, if you know VB well it's very easy to switch to C#, almost all the features are equivalent with slightly different syntax. I actually started with VB too. Didn't last long, wanted to write XNA games and it only supported C#.