Get Form object From String Name

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Hi Everyone,

I have all the form name in my application and What i have to do is To get the instance of that form

All forms name are available in the database and selected named form will be open

So I have just string variable of that form and I have to get the instance of that form

So please Help me for this problem.

Thanks

Posted 11-Jun-10 20:41pm

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Mycroft Holmes · Answer 1 · 2010-06-11T22:21:00

Solution 3

This discussion [^]on DaniWeb may be useful. It boils down to this.

C#

public void Open_Form(string formname)
{

    Type type = Type.GetType("myProject.Forms." + formname);
    object obj = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
    (obj as Form).MdiParent = this;
    (obj as Form).Show();

}

Posted 11-Jun-10 22:21pm

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Khaniya · Answer 2 · 2010-06-11T22:11:00

Solution 1

I thing for that you have to use reflection of .Net

may this helps you

Posted 11-Jun-10 22:11pm

Khaniya

DaveyM69 · Answer 3 · 2010-06-11T22:19:00

The first thing you need to do is to keep a collection of open forms somewhere in your application that you can perform the lookup against.
Then you can simply iterate over the collection checking the name...

C#

public Form GetForm(string name)
{
    Form result = null;
    foreach(Form form in formsCollection)
    {
        if(form.Name == name)
        {
            result = form;
            break;
        }
    }
    return result;
}