Call a button click event from another form

lukin

I have a C# windows app which has two forms.
I want to call a button click event which is on Form A from a separate form (Form . The problem is the button is declared as private on Form A so I can't get at it from Form B
I have looked at reflection as a way to do this but don't know much about it.

iDigian

To the best of my knowledge (it's from memory so don't earbash me if it's wrong) you could do it using reflection as follows,

overload the constructor for your form to pass in the reference to the form you want to call the click on.

So if you have two forms form1 and form2 and you want to call a method on form1 from form2 you would overload the constructor of form2 as follows,

public Form2(Form formObj, string callMethod)
{
InitializeComponent();
MethodInfo metInf = formObj.GetType().GetMethod(callMethod);
// Check to make sure methodinfo is not null
if (metInf!=null)
{
metInf.Invoke(formObj, new object[]{});
}
}

Note the line : metInf.Invoke(formObj, new object[]{});

You will need to specify the parameters of the method you want to invoke.