How to close one FORM from another FORM in C# Winform Application

Question

I'm working on C# winform application, in that I want to close one form from the another form i.e. I have 2 forms Form1 and Form2 and I want to close Form2 from Form1 for that I have written following code on button click event of Form1, but I'm getting the following exception-

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

private void button_click(object sender, eventArgs e)
{
     Form2.ActiveForm.Disposed+= new EventHandler(closeForm2) // Getting Exception to ***closeForm2***
}

private void closeForm2(object sender, eventArgs e)
{
      Form2.ActiveForm.Dispose();
}

Answer 1

For future readers!

You can use the following code to close one FORM from another FORM in C# Winform Application.

FrmToBeClosed obj = (FrmToBeClosed)Application.OpenForms["FrmToBeClosed"];
obj.Close();

Those 2 lines of code are self-explanatory!

That's it!

Answer 2

ActiveForm returns "Currently active form from this application" = Form you clicked... How you start your Form2? I think you should define it like

Form2 DetailsForm = null;
public void prepareForm2() //bind this to action to open new form
{
    if (DetailsForm == null)
    {
        DetailsForm = new Form2(this);
    }
}

Than you can just call close()/Dispose/Hide by calling

private void closeForm2(object sender, eventArgs e)
{
   DetailsForm.Close();
   // or DetailsForm.Hide();
   // or DetailsForm.Dispose();
}

Answer 3

See MSDN -> Form.ActiveForm Property

If your application is a multiple-document interface (MDI) application, use the ActiveMdiChild property to obtain the currently active MDI child form.

I think you need a void in your MDI-Form like

public void closeChild(Type FormType)
{
  foreach(Form form in this.MdiChildren)
  {
    if(typeof(form) == FormType)
    {
       /* what ever you wanna do */
    }
  }
}

Hope I could help :)

Answer 4

 CloseProgramForm closepf = new CloseProgramForm();
            closepf.ShowDialog();
            if (closeoption == 1)
                e.Cancel = false;
            else
                e.Cancel = true;