Passing strings from one Form to another in Visual Basic Express 2008?

[FPForum]

I am using a TextBox control on one form to accept a directory name and trying to use it on a second form to find the number of files in that directory

(filecnt = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(Form1.txtLocallyArchivedJpg). I receive the following error whenever I try and use the directory entered in the TextBox “Value of type 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox' cannot be converted to 'String'”

How can I get rid of this error?

 

[Kate]

It would be good that you post some code.

Assuming that in the second form you already have a reference set to Form1 you could get the value of the string entered in the textbox like this (in Form2)

filecnt = Form1.txtDirectory.Text

where txtDirectory is the textbox name

A better way would consist in passing the string as a parameter to Form2 using Overload methods.
Example: How To Pass Data Between Forms in VB.NET

 

[FPForum]

Got it figured out sds! Thanks