Steve

Depends on what you mean by command.  You may be able to use reflection,
CallByName, or scripting host, or il emit.  Just depends on what it is you are
trying to do.

I'm trying to get a control array assigned to 9 consecutive radio buttons. I
would like to put it in a for next loop. The code would do the following:

Dim rdbColor(9) As RadioButton

rdbColor(1) = RadioButton1
rdbColor(2) = RadioButton2
rdbColor(3) = RadioButton3
...
rdbColor(9) = RadioButton9

Thank you for your help.

Steve L.

Yeh, there's probably a few ways you can do this. The first that comes to mind is
reflection, eg :Type.InvokeMember
But it isn't as simple as that <g> The issues are whether these things are defined
at design time WithEvents or not.  The reason is, that VB.NET, creates a property
get/set for each control if they are declared as WithEvents, so:

Friend WithEvents foo As Bar
becomes

Private _foo as Bar

Friend Property foo() as Bar
    Get
        ....
    End Get
    Set
        ...
    End Set
End Property

The reason this is important to know is because if you are after the field, it now
has an "_" at the start of the name and the field is always private. Alternatively
you can invoke the property Get. The following code works on the hidden private
fields:

Dim rdbColor(9) As RadioButton
Dim i as Int32

For i = 1 to 9 ' what happened to item (0) ???
    rdbColor(i) = CType(Me.GetType.InvokeMember("_RadioButton" & i, _
                            Reflection.BindingFlags.GetField Or _
                            Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic Or  _
                            Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance, _
                            Nothing, Me, Nothing), _
                       RadioButton)
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