>Viv
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>The callled form was closed by clicking a button on the called form with:
>this.close
>in the click event handler.
>
>Apparently, that doesn't "release" it, it just "hides" it, because I can access its properties from the calling form afer this.close has been executed.
>
>That's really handy in this case, but I'd like to get rid of it and I'm wondering how.
I probably shouldn't be the one answering this since my WinForms is getting rusty. But I think that since the method that calls .ShowDialog is holding a reference to the modal form then it will hang around till that reference goes out of scope.
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>>>newbie question is .. why does this work? or put another way when does the called form object disappear in C#?
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>When myGetHolderForm goes out of scope or you specifically close it. .ShowDialog basically just shows the form as Modal...
>Hope this helps,
>Viv
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