(resolved) getting control name on click event

[Sneeden]

First of all.....sorry for the super long post. I don't like them either. Just trying to include information.

I have added several text boxes dynamically. They are a 2d array, btn[x,y].
I gave them all the same click event. The problem is that when one of them is clicked I need to know which one was clicked. I don't know how to extract the control name out of the arguments (Object sender, System.EventArgs e). I know that you can use:

if(sender.Equals((object)controlName))
    //do something

but there is no way I want to sit in a double nested loop to find which button was clicked.













To help, I've included some code snippets from my project:

Here is the routine that creates the buttons:

private void createSockets(int iX, int iY)
		{
			int x=0,y=0;
			p_socks=new Button[iX,iY];
			try
			{
				for(x=0;x<iX;x++)
				{
					for(y=0;y<iY;y++)
					{
						//no need to create sockets again
						if(socketsCreated)
							return;

						//generate socket name
						string butName=x.ToString()+(char)(y+'A');

						//add new buttons
						p_socks[x,y]=new Button();
						this.Controls.Add(p_socks[x,y]);
						p_socks[x,y].Location = new System.Drawing.Point(10, 10);
						p_socks[x,y].Name = "socks"+x+y;
						p_socks[x,y].Size = new System.Drawing.Size(20, 20);
						p_socks[x,y].TabIndex = 20;
						p_socks[x,y].Text = ""; //"socks"+x+y;
						p_socks[x,y].BackColor=p_backColor;
						p_socks[x,y].Visible=true;	
						p_socks[x,y].Click+=new System.EventHandler(sockClickHand);

					}
				}
				this.Refresh();
			}
			catch(Exception err)
			{
				errhand(err);
			}
		}

And here is the click event:

		private void sockClickHand(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			//this only displays the type of controls, not the name
			System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("You have clicked button " + Tag.ToString());
		}

[DeadEyes]

I got mightily confused reading this until I realised it was a question and not a real code bank post.
casting the object sender to a button will give you the button that raised the click event.

private void sockClickHand(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Button btn = (Button)sender;
//now do whatever you want with the button.
}

[Hack]

Moved from C# CodeBank.

[GlenW]

private void sockClickHand(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
  Button btn = sender as Button;
  if(null != btn)
  {
    //now do whatever you want with the button.
  }
}

I prefer this because 'as' returns null if you try an invalid cast, whereas (Button)sender will throw an error on an invalid cast.

[Sneeden]

Thx. Worked great!

Sorry about posting in the wrong section. My mistake.