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c#winformsvisual-studio-2013
Harry
Harry

Reputation: 678

How to get all Forms and User Controls in WinForms project?

I have a WinForms project, using Visual Studio 2013, DotNet Framework 4.0. How can I get a list of all of my created Forms and User Controls in the project, preferably at runtime?

EDIT: Thanks for your reply. SO for example, I want to get the FOrms and User Controls under the namespace "MyApp.Forms" and "MyApp.UserControls", how can I get the assemblies? Here's how I do it:

IEnumerable<Assembly> CurrentDomainAssemblies = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().Where(a => a.FullName.StartsWith("MyAppNamespace"));
        foreach (Assembly a in CurrentDomainAssemblies)
        {
            IEnumerable<Type> AssembliesTypes = a.GetTypes().Where(t => (typeof(Form).IsAssignableFrom(t) || typeof(UserControl).IsAssignableFrom(t)) && t.IsClass);
            foreach (Type t in AssembliesTypes)
            {
                if (t.FullName.Contains("Usercontrol"))
                {
                    listUc.BeginUpdate();
                    listUc.Items.Add(t.Name);
                    listUc.EndUpdate();
                }
                if (t.FullName.Contains("Forms"))
                {
                    listForm.BeginUpdate();
                    listForm.Items.Add(t.Name);
                    listForm.EndUpdate();
                }

EDIT: This approach based on the namespace of Forms and User Controls. Is it posssible to get its filename, not its namespace?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5676

Answers (1)

Rishikesh
Rishikesh

Reputation: 496

If you want to see all the classes(Forms or UserControls) you can use Reflection. But there is no such thing like project during runtime. You can get the list based on the assembly.

EDIT: Try this

foreach (Assembly a in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().Where(a=>!a.FullName.StartsWith("System.") || !a.FullName.StartsWith("Microsoft.")))
            {
                var types = a.GetTypes().Where(t => (typeof(Form).IsAssignableFrom(t) || typeof(UserControl).IsAssignableFrom(t) )&& t.IsClass && t.FullName.StartsWith("YourNamespace."));


            }

Upvotes: 4

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