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Reputation: 4125

Display the Parent properties of specified control

I feel confused on the Parent of a control and I tried to display the Parent of control by showing it with 

MessageBox.Show(unknownParentcontrol.Parent.ToString());

but the result display 

Project.Form1, Text: System

if its parent is Form1

but it will display like this 

System.Windows.Forms.Panel, BorderStyle: System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None

if it is belong to a Panel called pnlUnknown.

May I know how to display exact Parent name of a control even if it belongs to a Panel or other controls from Form?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

V-SHY
V-SHY

Reputation: 4125

Because the exact Parent name info is stored in 

unknownParentcontrol.Parent.Name

but not 

unknownParentcontrol.Parent

So we can show the name of Parent with

MessageBox.Show(unknownParentcontrol.Parent.Name.ToString());

By the way,

unknownParentcontrol.Parent

shows the parent container of the control

Upvotes: 2

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