WinForms: How to continues User Input in TextBoxes When Switching Between Forms?
I'm trying to implement After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out. I'm building a WinForms application using .NET 5, and I'm working with an scenario with user input not being retained when switching between multiple forms. I'm using DialogResult to open a second form from the main form, but any text entered in the TextBoxes on the first form disappears when I return to it. I tried to store the input values in a dictionary and then reassign them to the TextBoxes in the main form's `Shown` event, but it doesn't seem to work as expected. Here’s a simplified version of my code: ```csharp public partial class MainForm : Form { private Dictionary<string, string> userInputs = new Dictionary<string, string>(); public MainForm() { InitializeComponent(); } private void btnOpenForm_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Store current TextBox values userInputs["textBox1"] = textBox1.Text; userInputs["textBox2"] = textBox2.Text; var secondForm = new SecondForm(); secondForm.ShowDialog(); // Restore TextBox values after closing the second form if (userInputs.ContainsKey("textBox1")) textBox1.Text = userInputs["textBox1"]; if (userInputs.ContainsKey("textBox2")) textBox2.Text = userInputs["textBox2"]; } } ``` When I debug, the values in the `userInputs` dictionary look correct, but they don’t appear in the TextBoxes when I return to the main form. I'm also not seeing any exceptions in the console. I’ve checked that the `btnOpenForm_Click` method is being called as expected, and the second form closes properly. I suspect that the `ShowDialog` method is causing the context to reset somehow. Is there a better way to handle this situation, or am I missing something in terms of the form lifecycle management? Any insights or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Has anyone else encountered this? This is for a microservice running on CentOS. Any suggestions would be helpful. This is my first time working with Csharp 3.11.