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Get Form by Name

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Get Form by Name

by  SBendBuckeye  Posted    (Edited  )
This is a form equivalent to Get control by name using reflection faq796-5698 written by Chrissie1 a while ago.

I wanted to be able to create a form instance from the form name itself. Thanks to some threads on this forum, a bit of Googling and some MSDN work, I was able to come up with the following code. Enjoy!
Code: 
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.windows.forms

'Creates form from form name - CASE SENSITIVE
Public Shared Function GetFormByName( _
    ByVal formName As String) As Form

    Dim assemblyName As String = _
        [Assembly].GetEntryAssembly().GetName.Name.Replace(" ", "_")
  
    Dim myType As Type = _ 
        Type.GetType(assemblyName & "." & formName)
  
    Return CType(Activator.CreateInstance(myType), Form)

End Function

Another way was sent to me by chrissie1
Code: 
Private Function GetFormByName(ByVal formName As String) As Object

    Dim myasm As System.Reflection.Assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()

    Try
        Return myasm.CreateInstance(myasm.GetName.Name.Replace(" ", "_") & "." & formName)

    Catch ex As Exception
        Return Nothing
    End Try

End Function
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