Heh. Beat me to it. dg
-----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Cleaver Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Dynamically Displaying WinForms. You mean something like: ObjectHandle oh = Activator.CreateInstanceFrom(System.IO.Path.Combine(path, "Your.dll"), "Your.Namespace." + formName, true, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public, null, new object[] {}, null, null, null); Form form = (Form) oh.Unwrap(); ? Dino -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Rothlander Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2006 11:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Dynamically Displaying WinForms. Ryan, Thanks for responding, but I need to soft code the form names because I do not know what are called at design time. The code you have would not work becaue you have to hard code the Form1 name in the code. I need this soft coded. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Heath Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Dynamically Displaying WinForms. Maybe I did not understand your question but cant you do something like Dim frm Select Case clickMenu Case "form1": frm = new Form1 Case "form2": frm = new Form2 Case "form3": frm = new Form3 Case Else Throw New NotSupportedException( clickMenu) End Select frm.Show HTH // Ryan On 2/15/06, Jon Rothlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have changed the subject.... Sorry for the annoyance. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Rothlander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:47 AM > To: 'Discussion of advanced .NET topics.' > Subject: RE: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] SupressContent property on HttpResponse > > > I have a need to display a form based on a the content of an XML file > that is loaded into a menu control. Lets say that you have an XML > that holds a list of menu items that represent different forms within > the app. However, depending on the client and the authority of the > user, I do not know which forms they will have access to. So what I > need to do is to load the users list of forms via an XML file. At > that point, I will fill a menu list with the controls. When the user > selects an item from the menu, I want to load the form. > > I used to do this in VB6 and I cannot figure out how to do this in .Net. > It's been so long since I have needed this, that I cannot recall how > this used to work in VB6 and I no longer have access to the VB6 code > to see what I was doing back 7 years ago. > > It seems really simple, but I cannot figure out how to us a string > with the form name, to be used to create the new instance of the form. > Is there an easy way to do this? > > Something like.... > > Menu > Form1 > Form2 > Form3 > > Button click for the menu items... > > Dim frm as new form("form1") > frm.Show > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
