access any contols of the mdiparent form into its child form

Question

in mdiparent form have many controls like panels or pictureboxes etc.. i want to access its child form without creating new object.please give me quick answer

Vulpes · Answer

Suppose that Form1 is your MDI parent form and that it contains a panel called panel1. Suupose also that this panel contains a picturebox called pictureBox1 and that you want to access its Image property from a child form. Then you can do so as follows: Form1 f1 = (Form1)this.MdiParent; Panel p1 = (Panel)f1.Controls[panel1]; PictureBox pb1 = (PictureBox)p1.Controls[pictureBox1]; Image img = pb1.Image; Code for accessing other controls on the MDI parent form follows similar lines.