Arrays of Controls

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Can .NET handle the old system of arrays for controls used in Visual Basic?
eg

TextBox(1), (2) ...

 

[Scott Allen]

You can certainly build an array of controls, .NET will support an
array of any type.

Getting support from the designer, on the othjer hand, is a different
matter.

 

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You mean dynamic building of controls?

I was thinking of the old VB screens (eg VB 6) which had a SHIFT system and
PASTE. A array of controls was easily built and then a LOOP to set
attributes in an event.

I have looked at DataGrids, REpeaters, and DataLists but they seem to handle
one db column (last two controls) and the Grid is difficult to handle for
more advanced functions. I have built some controls using static controls
Text1, Text2 etc but this is not good code.

So what did MS replace the old arrays in VB with? They were widely used.

 

[Scott Allen]

AFAIK, the control arrays known to VB did not make it to the .NET
world (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio_042302.asp).

You might want to take a look at the repeater again. It can handle
multiple columns (or did you mean to say one row?). All the data bound
controls can then be found in the Controls array it biulds.

 

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No I did not mean to say one row.

AFAIK, the control arrays known to VB did not make it to the .NET
world (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio_042302.asp).

You might want to take a look at the repeater again. It can handle
multiple columns (or did you mean to say one row?). All the data bound
controls can then be found in the Controls array it biulds.