I want to place a few buttons on my form. The number is unknown at design time. Actually each button will represent an item entered in combo box. So if user adds an item, a button on the form should be added by the code.
Please advise how to do it?
Thanks
Furqan
You can do this by simply looping over any number (in this case from a combo box) and creating the required number of buttons before adding them to the form.
For i As Integer = 0 To myComboBox.Items.Count - 1
Dim newButton = new Button()
// Add some properties, etc. to the button
newButton.Text = myComboBox.Items(i).ToString()
MyForm.Controls.Add(newButton)
Next
ComboBox, rather than looping through all of the existing items and adding a button. All you need to do is create the button and add it to your form's Controls collection in the same place where you add an item to your ComboBox.
You can use a function like this:
Sub AddButton(ByVal label As String, ByVal location As Point)
Dim b As Button
b = New Button
b.Location = location
b.Text = label
Me.Controls.Add(b)
End Sub
with...so Dim b As Button With {.Name = "Button1", .Size = New Size(30,30), .Location = New Point(12,100)}