Passing a Form handle to a class constructor

I'm just starting to use Managed C++ and .NET. I'm still in the early learning stages.

Basically, I have a Window Form that has a value for MyClass to use. I thought I could use the following code to pass the Form1 handle to the Myclass constructor. First, the compiler says MyProgram is not a namespace. I've placed the using namespace into the MyClass.h, but this dosesn't help

I think it may be a chicked before the egg kind of thing, but want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Currently, I have a private member method within the Form1 class called setMyClass( ^Form1 ) which works but this doesn't seem very OOP to me.

//MyClass.h
#pragma once

public ref class CMyClass {
public:
CMyClass( MyProgram::Form1 ^hForm );

private:
int myTestVar;
}

//MyClass.cpp
#pragma once

#include "StdAfx.h"
#include "MyClass.h"

CMyClass::CMyClass( hForm ){
myTestVar = Convert::ToInt32( hForm->txtFieldFromForm1->Text );
}

//Form1.h
#pragma once

#include "MyClass.h"

namespace MyProgram {
public ref class Form1 : public System::Windows::Forms::Form {
public:
Form1(void) {
// initializing stuff
}
protected:
//destructor
private:

private: System::Void btnInitMyClass_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) {
CMyClass MyClass = gcnew CMyClass( this );
}
}

[1497 byte] By [JayThomas] at [2007-12-24]