How to loop all forms of project in c#

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i want to get information about all forms which are added in project, their name etc at run time. How to iterate though all these forms like we can iterate all the controls in form.

Posted 23-Aug-11 23:51pm

Xeshan Ahmed

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Prerak Patel · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T23:54:00

Solution 1

You need to use reflection.

C#

Type formType = typeof(Form);
foreach (Type type in Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetTypes())
{
   if (formType.IsAssignableFrom(type))
   {
       // type is a Form
   }
}

Posted 23-Aug-11 23:54pm

Prerak Patel

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Xeshan Ahmed 24-Aug-11 6:03am

but this shows same name for all three forms ???

Prerak Patel 24-Aug-11 6:21am

Show what you tried. I checked that type.Name returns the form names properly.

GParkings 1-Sep-11 8:40am

are you perhaps after the instance name of the form instances?

if this is the case then take a look at Application.OpenForms