Container controls

[hasansheik]

Dear all, Can any one explain me what is the difference between container control and normal control Since both are derived from a Control class I am not able to differenciate them.please help me to find out the given control is container control or not. Have a nice day.

[albCode]

Control container is example Panel in which we can set controls such is button,textbox,label,datetimepicker, etc.... Control is single one - example : button Control is single one - example : label Control is single one - example : textbox Control is single one - example : datetimepicker, etc....

[hasansheik]

thanks for your reference. How can I identify that the control is container control or not, at runtime. Contact him at: hasansheik@hotmail.com hasansheik@yahoo.co.in hasansheik@lycos.com

[Sean Michael Murphy]

hasansheik wrote:

How can I identify that the control is container control or not, at runtime.

Test the control against System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl using the is operator:

System.Console.WriteLine(this is System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl);
System.Console.WriteLine(label1 is System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl);

Where this is the form. The above two lines return true and false, respectively, since Form is derived from ContainerControl, and Label is not. ContainerControl inherits from ScrollableControl, which you can read about here[^]. Share and enjoy. Sean