Get reference to usercontrol's parent

[Tom]

This seems like a dumb question, but here goes: In my own VB.NET user
control, how do I gain access to the user controls parent? (i.e. the form
that is hosting the user control) For instance, in the control I want to set
the focus back to the main form that has the user control. Most other
classes/controls seem to have a Parent but not a user control.

I could, of course, pass a reference of the main form to the user control,
but this seems like overkill. Any other way? Thanks....

Tom

 

[Phill. W]

In my own VB.NET user control, how do I gain access to the
user controls parent?

Would you believe the [UserContrl].Parent property?

The FindForm() method will also get you the Form on which the
control appears, which is *not* necessarily the same thing.

HTH,
Phill W.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

This seems like a dumb question, but here goes: In my own VB.NET user
control, how do I gain access to the user controls parent? (i.e. the form
that is hosting the user control) For instance, in the control I want to
set
the focus back to the main form that has the user control. Most other
classes/controls seem to have a Parent but not a user control.

'UserControl' inherits from 'Control' and thus has a 'Parent' property and a
'FindForm' method. In addition to that, it has a 'Container' property.

 

[Tom]

Aha, this may explain it. I mis-spoke... This is a non-visual control, i.e.
a componet, so instead I inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component,
rather than user control.

So, there is probably no way to get the parent directly from here, is there?
Again, I want this to be a non-visual control (one that shows up in the
developer 'tray area' like a menu or image control does)...

Tom

 

[Tom]

Phil: As I mentioned to Herfried:

Aha, this may explain it. I mis-spoke... This is a non-visual control, i.e.
a componet, so instead I inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component,
rather than user control.

So, there is probably no way to get the parent directly from here, is there?
Again, I want this to be a non-visual control (one that shows up in the
developer 'tray area' like a menu or image control does)...

Tom

In my own VB.NET user control, how do I gain access to the
user controls parent?

Would you believe the [UserContrl].Parent property?

The FindForm() method will also get you the Form on which the
control appears, which is *not* necessarily the same thing.

HTH,
Phill W.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Aha, this may explain it. I mis-spoke... This is a non-visual control,
i.e.
a componet, so instead I inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component,
rather than user control.

So, there is probably no way to get the parent directly from here, is
there?
Again, I want this to be a non-visual control (one that shows up in the
developer 'tray area' like a menu or image control does)...

Components are typically placed in the components tray in VS.NET. You can
use a component's 'Container' property to get the container it resides in.
The components 'Site' property might be of interest too.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem, I have a form on which I drag a
self made component, it appears under the separater below the form.
When I call me.Container or me.Site in the component they return nothing