Circular Reference Issue
I have a situation where I have 1 solution and multiple projects underneath so that I can maintain seperate dll's for different reasons.
I have an MDI Parent form in one project and in another are all the forms that I want to instantiate as my MDI Children.
In my MDI Parent project I reference my project that has my MDI Children Forms. This is needed so that in the parent I can cast a new form of my child type and then call .Show().
This works great as expected. The problem I'm having is in my child mdi forms I need to call a method that belongs to my Parent MDI form. This method I have created as public but I have no way to reference it that I can find. I can call Form myForm = this.MDIParent; - but the only methods available are to Form and not my specific Form. I can't cast it to my Parent Form type as I don't have a reference to it because it is in a seperate project. I can't add the parent project reference in solution explorer - it complains that it would be a circular reference.
If I move my child forms into the main parent forms project - there is no problem casting the this.MDIParent to my parent form custom form type and that allows me to get at my public method.
I can't figure this out, but surely you must be able to do it using seperate projects. It don't want my children in the exe build I want them in seperate dll's so I can use the trickle down approach of loading them off a webserver.
thanks
