How to show / showdialog form thru a string

[Winanjaya]

Dear All,
How to show / showdialog form thru a string,
eg:

Dim mForm as String = "Form1"

How to show it?

Regards
Winanjaya

[dynamic_sysop]

like this ....

Dim mForm As String = "Form3"
        Dim f As Form = DirectCast(GetType(Form).InvokeMember(mForm, Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing), Form)
        f.Show()

[Winanjaya]

Hi.. it works but all of objects (textbox, label, checkbox .. etc) not shown .. why? ..

[dynamic_sysop]

sorry i forgot to use the correct type , you should be using Type.GetType , not GetType. specifying the application name and a dot ( . ) and the form name as a string ( eg: Application1.Form1 )
eg:

'/// use Type.GetType(appName & mForm)
        Dim appName As String = Application.ProductName & "."
        Dim mForm As String = "Form3"
        Dim f As Form = DirectCast(Type.GetType(appName & mForm).InvokeMember(mForm, Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing), Form)
        f.Show()

[techgnome]

dynamic_sysop - Dude! thank you very much for that little piece of code. It is EXACTLY what I needed. I've been knocking myself out on how to do just that. Once I got my Application Name set right (I had a space in it originally) it worked perfectly.

Danke a million times over.

Tg

[taxes]

Originally posted by techgnome
dynamic_sysop - Dude! thank you very much for that little piece of code. It is EXACTLY what I needed. I've been knocking myself out on how to do just that. Once I got my Application Name set right (I had a space in it originally) it worked perfectly.

Danke a million times over.

Tg

Hi techgnome,

Could you please elaborate on "Once I got my Application Name set right "

Do I understand you to say that you can create an instance of a form from another application?