No Forms Collection - Page 2 - Visual Basic .NET

Alex

Does anybody know why VB.NET would omit the Forms collection available in
previous versions versions of VB? I imagine that there must be a reason why
they decided to do away with it, but I can't fathom why. Does anybody know?

Nov 21 '05

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Oenone

Larry Lard wrote:

I would of course welcome examples of where Forms is geniunely useful
:)

I used to use the Forms collection for quite a few things.

A couple of examples:

I'd use it to determine whether a form in my application was already being
used. If the user tried to open a second instance of the form then I would
just pop the existing form to the front instead of opening another instance.
That was useful.

I also used to have multiple forms open that provided different views into
an object the user was working with. When the user moved to a different
object, all of the open windows would automatically update to view the new
object instead. This was achieved by iterating through the Forms collection,
identifying forms that needed to be updated and calling a method on each to
look at the new object.

In VB.NET I can work around most of the missing functionality because I'm
writing an MDI application, so I can use the MdiChildren array. There are
occasions where I do miss it though.

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(O)enone

Nov 21 '05 #11

Alex

"Larry Lard" <la*******@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@g 14g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...

OK maybe you could have a collection of all Form objects that are
currently referenced - but unless you used WeakReferences (which I only
found out about the other day), this would stop forms ever being GC'd.

If the Form object is being currently referenced then you wouldn't want it to
be GC'd.

Nov 21 '05 #12

Cor Ligthert

Alex,

Are this enough articles to start with
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...rch+this+group

Cor

Nov 21 '05 #13

Cor Ligthert

Herfried,

The main difference is that VB6 provided a "standardiz ed" way to keep
track of form instances in the 'Forms' collection, which made exchanging
forms between projects much easier. In VB.NET, currently people have to
implement their own collection which leads to many different,
non-compatible solutions.

This discussion in this thread looks for me about religion, you tell that
everybody needs it. And I don't need it, in those situations it has no
sense to discuss, you believe it or not.

I was more interesting in a reply on the message where you wrote about that
byte collection. I took some time to make if visible what you wrote.

Cor

Nov 21 '05 #14

Alex

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> wrote in message
news:eL******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...

Are this enough articles to start with
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...rch+this+group

Only if the articles go on to explain why MS decided to do away with it, which
is what my original question was (and still is).

Nov 21 '05 #15

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

Cor,

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb:

The main difference is that VB6 provided a "standardiz ed" way to keep
track of form instances in the 'Forms' collection, which made exchanging
forms between projects much easier. In VB.NET, currently people have to
implement their own collection which leads to many different,
non-compatible solutions.

This discussion in this thread looks for me about religion, you tell that
everybody needs it. And I don't need it, in those situations it has no
sense to discuss, you believe it or not.

Huh? Where did I write that everybody needs a 'Forms' collection?! The
whole discussion is absolutely not about "religion".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Nov 21 '05 #16

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