How 2 refer to controls by a string variable name instead of index

[GY2]

How do I refer to controls by a string variable name instead of by integer
item index?

A form contains 7 rich textbox controls labeled rtb1-rtb7. In VB6 I could
use the following code to loop through each one but with .NET I'm having
trouble doing something just as efficient.

Is there not a way to refer to the control by its name or do I have to go
find its index number in order to point to it?

All help appreciated.


For K = 1 To 7
strWhichRTB = "rtb" & K
With Me(strWhichRTB)
.Text = "whatever"
End With
Next K

 

[Peter Proost]

Hi,

check this link:

http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=controlbynameindex&lang=en

Greetz Peter

 

[GY2]

Thanks a lot. This shows several ways to do it and I will probably go with
an array. Even so none of these methods are as clean as the old VB 6 way in
my opinion.