(VB.NET) Accessing ActiveX controls created at runtime

[porksmash]

I'm developing an app here that uses ActiveX controls to connect to industrial cameras over Ethernet. I want to be able to dynamically create those controls at runtime based on how many cameras are configured, rather than take the easy way out and put a fixed amount of controls on the form at design. Makes it more flexible.

At the moment the way I am trying to do it is adding instances of the control into a collection with their individual properties set, then for each-ing through the collection and adding the controls to the form. Now, this is where I get the problems. I can access the properties of the control, like height, name, and so on, but any of the properties or methods from the control itself are not accessible at all. I can't reference them by name (like "CameraControl.RemoteHost = "blah"); it causes a syntax error because the control isn't there yet. I can't do it through Me.Controls.Items("name").RemoteHost because that property is not a property of the control class. I tried setting these properties before adding the item to the collection (by doing cntDVTSID.RemoteHost = "127.0.0.1"), but then I get an error at runtime: Exception of type System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InvalidActiveXStateExc eption' was thrown.

Here is the code I am using, if it helps:

Dim i As Integer
i = 0
 
For Each clsCamera In colCameras
   Dim cntDVTSID As New AxAxSID.AxDVTSID
   cntDVTSID.Visible = True
   cntDVTSID.Top = 29 * i
   cntDVTSID.Left = 149 * i
   cntDVTSID.Name = clsCamera.Name
   i += 1
   colCameraControls.Add(cntDVTSID, cntDVTSID.Name)
   lstCameras.Items.Add(clsCamera.Name)
Next
 
'Add the controls to the form
For Each cntDVTSID As AxAxSID.AxDVTSID In colCameraControls
   Me.Controls.Add(cntDVTSID)
Next
 

Anyone have some ideas? I'm really starting to miss control arrays from VB6 :)

edit: fixed code