Control names in VB Conpact Framework

[Brad Smith]

I'm try to develop an easy way to get a complete list of all form names,
their control names and the controls text/caption properties as a starting
point for an internationalization project on a fairly large project.

It looked like it could just put a call to a module level sub and passing Me
in all the Form.New's and then in to mod level sub enumerate the controls on
the form and write them to log file.

Although I can get the control type and there is a Form.Name and
Control.Name property, the Name properties are not supported in Dot Net.

Is there any way to get a form name or control name out of compact
framework?

I am taking this approach because we have fairly large project which will be
internationlized to several languages and I wanted to develop a means to
provide the ability for end users to modify translations instead of using a
resource file.

I take this approach in all my desktop code and it works great and then end
user's love being able to do their own translations.

There's usually some other more convoluted way to get stuff that was ripped
out of CF for the sake of footprint.

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

Brad,

Google is your friend here, but Bill Ryan pulled several suggestions
together in this nice article:
http://www.devbuzz.com/content/zinc_controlname_pg1.asp