Creating and Removing Controls

[arcticfang]

Hey everyone. I'm making quite the complex program, and while I try to figure out some more advanced methods that work better for what I'm trying to do, I'd like to learn how to do this (which is a bit of a roundabout method to what I've been trying). I'm wondering, how can I programatically create and remove objects? For example, I have webbrowser1. I want to remove it and create another webbrowser that I will also name webbrowser1. (therefore, the instance of the original must be removed) How would I go about doing this?

[arcticfang]

That, or if someone can tell me how to refresh the internet settings so that the webbrowser will update its IP address according to the registry. Thanks for the help.

[.paul.]

try this:

Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim webbrowser1 As New WebBrowser
        webbrowser1.Name = "webbrowser1"
        Me.Controls.Add(webbrowser1)
        Me.Controls.Remove(webbrowser1)
        'or
        Me.Controls.RemoveByKey("webbrowser1")
        'or 
        Me.Controls.OfType(Of WebBrowser).ToArray(0).Dispose()
    End Sub
 
End Class

[.paul.]

That, or if someone can tell me how to refresh the internet settings so that the webbrowser will update its IP address according to the registry. Thanks for the help.

how do you mean update its IP address?
you want to navigate to a different site?

webbrowser1.navigate(url)

[arcticfang]

Thanks for the code!!

I played around with it, and it works perfectly! Thanks so much for your help!!

[arcticfang]

However, it's not working like I wanted it to. I'll post another thread with the original method I was trying to get help with that. I'll probably use this code later, however. Thanks for your help!