Preserving form controls when creating new instance of form!!

Let's say I have two forms, FormA & FormB. When creating a new instance of FormA in FormB I lose all controls that were created in FormA at runtime. I understand this b/c I'm creating a new instance!!

How can I preserve these controls so I can get at them from FormB? Is there another way besides creating a 'new' instance of FormA??

Thanks.

wouldn't simply looping through FormB's control collection give you what you want

Code:

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//FormB

foreach (ctrl in FormA.Controls)
{
    Console.Writeline (ctrl.Name) //do something meaninful here
}

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I don't think so. I have a panel on FormA which can contain one or more usercontrols, depending on how many the user adds at runtime. If I attempt to get a 'count' of controls within the panel at runtime from FormB, I get "0" even though there have been several usercontrols added.

???

Quote:

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Originally posted by Ksyrium
I get "0" even though there have been several usercontrols added.

???

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odd...works for me.

to clarify. A form is populated with dynamic controls - you want to acess these controls from another form (the form that opens it)?

Are you wanting to make a copy of the form or just copy the controls over to a new form?