Reference a control by name...[RESOLVED]

[BenFinkel]

Hey everyone,

I feel like an idiot asking this but...

I have a collection of controls that I add to my form programmatically, and was wondering how I can refer to specific controls by name? I'd rather not loop through the controls collection and compare names, since there could be many of these controls.

Thanks,

Ben

[FredjeV]

Try putting them in a HashTable:

Dim oControl As New Hashtable()

' Add controls
oControl.Add("name1", TextBox1)
oControl.Add("name2", TextBox2)
oControl.Add("name3", TextBox3)

dim t as textbox

t = oControl("name1)

Fred

[BenFinkel]

Thanks Fred, worked perfectly!

--Ben