Reference to added user control

[adh]

Hello,
How do I get the referebce to the last added UserControl:
Me.Controls.Add(myUserControl)
When I add one after another?

Return CType(Me.Controls(.Controls.Count - 1), _ myUserControl)
doesn't go.

Thanks, adh

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Just check it back ways up in the place your added it, if it is direct on a
form by instance roughly typed in this message

\\\
for i as integer = me.controls.count - 1 to 0
if TypeOf me.controls(i) Is myUserControl then
return me.controls(i)
end if
next
///

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[adh]

Thanks Cor,
I Thought about it, but I still need a Ctype when trying to access or
copy emmbeded controls.

Two Questions are left:
1) Why doesn't Me.Controls.Add(uctl) return a reference (like all "Add"s
do)?
2) Why are we going backwards, things of 1 codding line are becomming a
whole routine?

Thanks, adh

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Thanks Cor,

I Thought about it, but I still need a Ctype when trying to access or
copy emmbeded controls.

You need a CType or a directcast if you need a property that you have
yourself added.

dim mytext as string = ctr(x).text
dim mySpecial as string = directcast(ctr(x),mycontrol).myproperty

Two Questions are left:
1) Why doesn't Me.Controls.Add(uctl) return a reference (like all "Add"s
do)?

I don't know what you mean by this.

2) Why are we going backwards, things of 1 codding line are becomming a
whole routine?

How do you know that a usercontrol is the last. If you are sure of that,
than it is just

me.controls(me.controls.count-1)

I hope this helps,

Cor