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

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?

 

There are several methods. The easiest is to write a public property on Form1 to pass the string of the test box as in following example.

public string MyTestBox {
     get {return textbox1.Text;}
     set {textbox1.Text = value;}
}

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Thanks Neo. I tried to leave some rep for you but says I need to leave rep for others first before I can give you more, lol. Anyways, I tried what you had said but I am getting an error saying the keyword string is not a valid identifier.

Basically I can get the two forms to talk to one another...but I can't seam to pass the text in textbox1 (Form1) into a textbox I have on Form2.

Thanks again for your help!

 

Did you load the form with text box as below from the main form? (Note that codes are in C#, I think it will be easy to convert them to VB.Net)

        Form2 form2;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            form2 = new Form2();
            form2.Show();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(form2.MyTestBox);
        }

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Thanks Neo! Got it all working now