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Posted: **Thu May 06, 2010 8:05 pm**

I just found this on my harddrive while looking through project files pretty much what it does is you can have a textbox and enter a number and it will generate that number of controls. For this example we will be generating textboxes on the form.

What you need is:

1 button
1 textbox
1 flowlayout panel

For the declarations we are gonna put this:

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    Dim abox As TextBox
    Dim count As Integer
    Dim count2 As Integer

Now we are going to code for button1.

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Try

            If Not textbox1.Text Is String.Empty Then
                count2 = textbox1.Text
            Else
                Exit Sub
            End If


            For Me.count = 0 To count2 - 1
                abox = New TextBox
                abox.AutoSize = True

                FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(abox)
            Next

        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try


        Dim intcount As Integer

        If Not textbox1.Text Is String.Empty Then
            count2 = textbox1.Text
        Else
            Exit Sub
        End If

        Try

            For Me.count = 0 To count2 - 1
                If Not textbox1.Text Is String.Empty Then
                    If FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls(count).Name = "abox_" & count & "_mycntrl" Then
                        If CInt(abox.Text) > 0 Then
                            intcount += CInt(FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls(count).Text)
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            Next

        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
        textbox1.Clear()

Now when you enter a number in the textbox you can generate other textboxes, if you enter 5 then 5 textboxes will appear.

you can use this for other controls too of course and this isnt much of a tutorial since I cant remember much about this project lol im finding alot of stuff while searching but here it is and have fun 8-)

Posted: **Fri May 07, 2010 3:49 am**

not bad

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