how to reference the form?

[rua17]

I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that contains
it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it
could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

[Matt Burland]

Yes, each control has a property called Container that returns the container
(e.g. form, another control...) of that control. You can traverse up the
list of Containers (i.e. find the container of your button, then find the
container of that container and so on until you get null) until you find the
parent of all the controls which should be a form in a simple windows forms
app.

"rua17" <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that contains it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it
could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

[Matt Burland]

Actually, there is also a Parent property you can use. I'm not sure exactly
what the difference is though...

"rua17" <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that contains it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it
could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

[Matt Burland]

Actually, that was wrong, my fault. Use the parent property instead.

"Matt Burland" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yes, each control has a property called Container that returns the container (e.g. form, another control...) of that control. You can traverse up the
list of Containers (i.e. find the container of your button, then find the
container of that container and so on until you get null) until you find the parent of all the controls which should be a form in a simple windows forms app.

"rua17" <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that

contains

it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

[Darrin J Olson]

I had the same suggestion as Matt. You could make a short recursive method
to look for the parent of the current control until you find a control of
the type you are looking for.

-Darrin
"rua17" <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that contains it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it
could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

[Rakesh Namineni[MSFT]]

Button.Parent - Gives you the container control and Forms is a container
control. Hope that helps.
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I'm creating a special button control that creates a log in the database
every time is touched.

I need to log whe name of the button and the name of the form that contains
it

In some cases the button could be contained by the form, in some cases it
could be contained by a pageframe that is contained by the form...

How can I reference the form name for this case??? is there any property
that has the container of the button?

thanks

Rakesh, EFT.

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