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visual-studiolabelcontrolsremoveall
Jack
Jack

Reputation: 387

clearing controls Visual basic Forms

I have a Picture boxes inside a parent label and I want to be able remove them all. I tried MyLbl.controls.clear() and that didn't do anything, I did not get an error, just nothing happened. I tried giving them tags and looping through all controls In the form looking for the tag but it never found them.

Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 438

Answers (1)

Mike Makarov
Mike Makarov

Reputation: 1356

WinForms Label control does not allow adding child controls by default using designer, even if picture boxes appear above the label. Unless you explicitly said MyLbl.Controls.Add MyPicture1, the picture box is actually child of your Form or some other container.

You can check this by going to View > Other Windows > Document Outline in Visual Studio when a form designer is open.

In case picture box is child of a form, you'll have to remove related controls from form's Controls collection.

But to simplify this, you can just add a GroupBox or Panel to your Form, and place PictureBoxes there. Then, you can do MyGrpBox.Controls.Clear().

Upvotes: 1

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