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VB6 cast generic collection item to custom class

Hi. My VB6 application has several collections of custom classes, and each class has differing properties (ie. the classes are not necessarily related). I want to write a generic function which can be passed any collection in order to populate a control based on the objects in the collection. I figure I would have to pass the type of object into the function too in order to be able to cast each item of the collection, plus, say, a string array of field names (representing class properties) the user wanted to display in the control. Any pointers how to do this

Thank

Dav
Nov 20 '05 #1
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I appear to have underestimated VB6 here. I do not need to cast a collection item to access it's properties. However, I still need the ability to access an object's properties using a string representation of each property name. I have posted a new question under the title "VB6: Access object properties by name"

DT
Nov 20 '05 #2
Hi Dave,

Did you know this is a VB.net newsgroup. The language is a look a like for
VB 6 however the use of it is when done well completly different.

There are a lot of newsgroups

microsoft.publi c.VB which are for classic VB

I hope this helps?

Cor
Nov 20 '05 #3

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