How do you make a dialog forget its fields when reshown?

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I have code like this
TheDialog.ShowDialog
If the user fills in the fields, and then hits OK, and then later
comes back to the dialog to add a different item, the dialog is still
filled with the data he entered the first time. To prevent this, I
could just set every text box to an empty string, and the selections
on every combo box would also have to be reset somehow.
But is there an easier way?
 
I have code like this
TheDialog.ShowDialog
If the user fills in the fields, and then hits OK, and then later
comes back to the dialog to add a different item, the dialog is still
filled with the data he entered the first time. To prevent this, I
could just set every text box to an empty string, and the selections
on every combo box would also have to be reset somehow.
But is there an easier way?
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I'm guessing you are showing the dialog multiple times in the same
scope?

If so try this:

' Dimension the variable once
Dim TheDialog as MyDialogForm

' Then when it's needed instantiate it and use it.
TheDialog = new MyDialogForm()

' The using block will call TheDialog.Dispose() when it exits
Using (TheDialog)
TheDialog.ShowDialog()
' Do whatever here
End Using

Thanks,

Seth Rowe.
 
I'm guessing you are showing the dialog multiple times in the same
scope?

If so try this:

' Dimension the variable once
Dim TheDialog as MyDialogForm

' Then when it's needed instantiate it and use it.
TheDialog = new MyDialogForm()

' The using block will call TheDialog.Dispose() when it exits
Using (TheDialog)
TheDialog.ShowDialog()
' Do whatever here
End Using

Thanks,

Seth Rowe.
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Forgive me for being obtuse, but shouldn't the call to the constructor
wipe out the fields?
 
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