Indirect referencing (Resolved)

[taxes]

Hi,

In some DOS languages we had a facility known as "Macro Substitution", whereby you could directly access the object named in a variable. e.g.

strVar contained the string "File1"

Assuming the Macro Substitution reference is "&" you could then access File1 by refering to it as

&strVar

I know that you can access controls in VB.NET in a similar way by using Collections, but can you do something similar with variables?

[CyberHawke]

Taxes,

I'm not quite grasping your question, could you re-phrase it please.

[taxes]

Originally posted by CyberHawke
Taxes,

I'm not quite grasping your question, could you re-phrase it please.

Right,

say i have a sub named TestThis() and a string variable named strTest.

In VB.NET, can I put "TestThis" into strTest and then call the sub by using the contents of strTest?

As I said, this used to be called Macro Substitution and was VERY useful.

[PT Exorcist]

You still didn't make yourself clear..

[taxes]

Originally posted by PT Exorcist
You still didn't make yourself clear..

O.K. I'll try again.

Dim strTest As String = "TestThis"

Private Sub TestThis()
MessageBox.Show("It Works")
End Sub


Can I call the sub TestThis by using strTest in some way?

[<ABX]

He is looking for something like the "CallByName" Method in VB6...

not sure if it exists in .NET???

[<ABX]

Take a look at this.... http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...oc/Invoke.aspx

[taxes]

Hi ABX,

Looks good. Yes, the CallBy Name function is still available. I'll look at that and your link tomorrow.

Many thanks.

[taxes]

Hi ABX,

Yes, the CallByName function works perfectly.

e.g.

In an event or procedure.
 
Dim strTest As String="TestingThis"
CallByName(Me, strTest, CallType.Method)
 
 
Sub TestingThis()
  MessageBox.Show("TestingThis Method Successfully Called")
End Sub

Many thanks, I've been looking for this for months.

Now I can throw away my dBaseIII Plus