Access to Children of a UserControl

sjones

I created a basic user control with a textbox and a button. It is a lookup control. The documentation I read said you could not access the textbox properties directly and would have to handle those at the UserControl level and pass them through. That is what I want to happen, and expected to happen. But I have found that in my form's code, I can get access to them using something like: myCtrl.Controls[0].Name I also see everything about the contained controls in the debugger's watch window. How do I hide all this stuff?

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Andrzej Wegierski22y ago
If You want to use only std objects - it's impossible, You are right. But You can add Your own objects to tools. See there
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sjones22y ago
No I did not. I used the forms designer, so it has all the standard code to create controls and assign properties. I think I am just going to have to live with this one. Thanks for taking the time.
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Andrzej Wegierski22y ago
Near impossible! Did You create inherited UserControl like this: public class PrivateControl : UserControl { public new ControlCollection Controls { get { ControlCollection cc=new ControlCollection(this); foreach(Control ctrl in base.Controls) if(... something...) cc.Add(ctrl); return cc; } } }
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sjones22y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. But that did not help. I can still iterate the Controls collection of the user control and have full access to them.
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Andrzej Wegierski22y ago
Try to create Your own usercontrol and override (or create new) Controls in it. Next, copy to this array only these controls from base Controls which You want (not tested)
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