How to refresh datagridview when closing child form?

Question

I've a dgv on my main form, there is a button that opens up another form to insert some data into the datasource bounded to the dgv. I want when child form closes the dgv auto refresh. I tried to add this in child form closing event, but it doesn't refresh:

private void frmNew_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
        {
            frmMain frmm = new frmMain();

            frmm.itemCategoryBindingSource.EndEdit();
            frmm.itemsTableAdapter.Fill(myDatabaseDataSet.Items);
            frmm.dataGridView1.Refresh();
        }

However, when I add this code in a button on the parent form, it actually does the trick:

        this.itemCategoryBindingSource.EndEdit();
        this.itemsTableAdapter.Fill(myDatabaseDataSet.Items);
        this.dataGridView1.Refresh();

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this, but the following is the simpliest and it will do what you want and get you started.

• Create a public method on your main form.
• Modified constructor of second form to take a main form.
• Create an instance of the second form passing the main form object.
• When closing second form, call the public method of the main form object.

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Form1

public partial class Form1 : Form {
    public Form1() {
        //'add a label and a buttom to form
        InitializeComponent();
    }
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        Form2 oForm = new Form2(this);
        oForm.Show();
    }
    public void PerformRefresh() {
        this.label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
    }
}

Form2

public class Form2 : Form {
    Form1 _owner;
    public Form2(Form1 owner) {
        _owner = owner;
        this.FormClosing += new System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventHandler(this.Form2_FormClosing);
    }
    private void Form2_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e) {
        _owner.PerformRefresh();
    }
}