Files in an application?

16 May 2006 9:31 PM

Dave

How can my executable determine the classes (specifically User Controls) in
itself? My program needs to know the list of User Controls that are in it.

16 May 2006 9:39 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Dave" <D***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> How can my executable determine the classes (specifically User Controls)
> in
> itself? My program needs to know the list of User Controls that are in it.

'[Assembly].GetExecutingAssembly.GetTypes' will return an array of types
defined in the assembly. Then you can check each 'Type' object's 'BaseType'
property and compare it to the 'UserControl' type.

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17 May 2006 3:58 PM

Dave

That's what I need, except I want to use the info to instantiate my User
Control. I want to put your suggested code in a function and return the User
Control back to the calling routine. This function returns Types, and I can't
seem to convert the Type returned to a User Control.

Any ideas how to do that?
Thanks for all your help.

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> "Dave" <D***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> > How can my executable determine the classes (specifically User Controls)
> > in
> > itself? My program needs to know the list of User Controls that are in it.
>
> '[Assembly].GetExecutingAssembly.GetTypes' will return an array of types
> defined in the assembly. Then you can check each 'Type' object's 'BaseType'
> property and compare it to the 'UserControl' type.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>
>