Reflection and Form child Controls

[Jon Turner]

My intention is to be able to open an assembly and for each form, list the
form's children's controls. Can someone
please tell me how this can be accomplished ? I am familiar with how to get
Methods/properties using reflection, but
seem to be in the dark about the form's children's controls.

Many Thanks in Advance

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

The Form class, which inherits from the Control class, has a Controls
collection, so you can retrieve them recursively. This will work for most
controls (including forms), although for some controls it would be better to
use the Children property of the new ITreeDesigner interface of .NET 2.0,
but for this you need the designer, you can´t use Reflection.

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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