Referencing a Form by name

[Guest Andrejko]

Does anyone know of a way to reference a class (say, a form class) by a String representation of its name?

IE,

System.Windows.Forms.getFormByName("Form1").someMember (pseudocode)

would be equivalent to just saying

Form1.someMember

 

Note: I am not trying to reference an instance of a class, but a Shared (static) member of that class.

[divil]

You can't reference an instance of a form by it's name at the best of times, let alone if all you have is a string.

 

Consider a public hashtable, with which you could associate text with your form instances.

[Guest Andrejko]

Shared members

 

Actually, I would like to acces Shared members of the form (I should have stated that in my original post)

I do not need an instance of the class to do this.

So, Form1.someMember is entirely possible, IFF someMember is declared as Shared.

Now it would be nice if I could do this with a string, without a big Select statement.

A hashtable would not work, since, as I am not creating instances of the classes, I would have nothing to place in it. Good idea though.

[divil]

Oh ok.

 

To create an instance of any class in your app with a string, use this code:

 

Dim X As Form
X = CType(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.CreateInstance("MyNameSpace.Form1"), Form)

X.ShowDialog()

 

I know this isn't exactly what you wanted but it's a start, and just off the top of my head.

[Guest Andrejko]

thx

 

Thanks,

this actually is a usefull piece of information. Although this code still creates an instance, instead of just referencing the class. (Static class)