Hi All,

Here is what I am trying to do:
I have an ASPX project that has a lot of repeatition in the code. A
lot of this code that is repeated because at the moment I haven't
found a way to programmatically create a "control's" ID and assign it
a value.

The controls in question have been labelled btnVal1, btnVal2, btnVal3,
...btnVal15. They are all ImageButtons

Now, not all the controls are shown at one time, and what I want to do
is something like (very simplified)

for i = 1 to how many controls should show a tick
   temp = "btnVal" & CStr(i)
   temp.imageurl = "images/ticked.jpg"
Next

Of course, I get the error that imageurl is not in the class String.

I have tried the CTyping the string to an imagecontrol but I get an
error stating the String cannot be converted to a type control.

Can anyone suggest ways of begin able to do this..

Thanks,
Robert

Hi Robert.  Try putting your controls into an array, and then referencing
the array elements, like this:

Dim ImgBtn() as New ImageButton = {btnVal1, btnVal2, btnVal3, ... btnVal15}
Dim ii as Integer

For ii = 0 to How Many Controls should show a tick
    ImgBtn(ii).ImageUrl = "images/ticked.jpg"
Next

I don't know of a way to "programatically" build a control's name.  And
unfortunately, VB.NET doesn't support Control Arrays like VB 6 does.  So,
what I illustrated above is as close as you can get.

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Jeff Ptak