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a generic dialog load routine

i have alot of dialog in my winform app and i do this for each one of them when i need to load 

Dim frm As New Settings
        frm.ShowDialog()
        frm = Nothing

i was thinking if its possible to have a routine like this

sub LoadDialog(byval item as form)
' code to load specific form passd here
end sub

then i call like this loadDialog(customersDialog). where the CustomerDialog is a form

an idea on how to do this?

Solution

  • You can make a generic procedure to handle this:

    Public Shared Sub LoadAndShowDialog(Of T As {Form, New})()
    Dim frm As New T
    frm.ShowDialog() 
End Function

    You could then call this as:

    LoadAndShowDialog(Of Settings)()