Getting list of controls in Design mode.

[Michael]

Hi Everyone,
I need to write a utility for an app that will get the list of controls on
the form. I would also need to get the info on how the parent is, ect... What
is the best way to go about this? Thanks for any suggestion.
Michael Lee

[Sarika]

Michael,

Looping through Me.Controls in your form class will give you access to each
of the controls that exists on the form.

Is this what you were looking for?

HTH

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Michael" <Mi*****@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

I need to write a utility for an app that will get the list of controls on
the form. I would also need to get the info on how the parent is, ect...

You can recursively enumerate the controls. Take a look at the
implementation of 'FindControl', it will give you the idea:

Accessing controls by their names or indices
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=controlbynameindex&lang=en>

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[Michael]

Hi Sarika,
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping I could do that in the design mode with
an add-in or something. I know I can do that in run mode. I saw a project on
the net that you dropped on the form and it was suppose to output an xml file
when the form was saved. I was looking to do something like that. And I also
know that I would have to write the xml convertion code. Thanks again for the
reply.

"Sarika" wrote:

Michael,

Looping through Me.Controls in your form class will give you access to each
of the controls that exists on the form.

Is this what you were looking for?

HTH

[Sarika]

O...Okay...Hmm......Here is a thought, although it might not be the ideal
solution or what you are looking for.

The InitializeComponent method has iniitalization code for the controls in
your form. So your addin would parse this function and maybe till you
encounter a New in it => it is a new control on the Form, something like
that.

I am sure there is a better approach to doing this