C#: Need one of my classes to trigger an event in another class to update a text box

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Published on 2010-04-01T10:07:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 10:13 UTC
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Total n00b to C# and events although I have been programming for a while.

I have a class containing a text box. This class creates an instance of a communication manager class that is receiving frames from the Serial Port. I have this all working fine.

Every time a frame is received and its data extracted, I want a method to run in my class with the text box in order to append this frame data to the text box.

So, without posting all of my code I have my form class...

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    CommManager comm;

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        comm = new CommManager();

    }

    private void updateTextBox()
    {
        //get new values and update textbox
    }
    .
    .
    .

and I have my CommManager class

class CommManager 
{
     //here we manage the comms, recieve the data and parse the frame
}

SO... essentially, when I parse that frame, I need the updateTextBox method from the form class to run. I'm guessing this is possible with events but I can't seem to get it to work.

I tried adding an event handler in the form class after creating the instance of CommManager as below...

 comm = new CommManager();
 comm.framePopulated += new EventHandler(updateTextBox);

...but I must be doing this wrong as the compiler doesn't like it...

Any ideas?!

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