Dim YourButton As New System.Web.UI.Button

YourButton.Text = "Your text"

YourButton.OnClick = New EventHandler(AddressOf YourButton_OnClick)

Then put a place holder where you want the button to go and use

[PlaceHolder].Controls.Add(YourButton)

Or add it straight to the page without a placeholder like this:

Me.Controls.Add(YourButton)

win forms... it gives me an error

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Programming Development\dotNET\Comnk\Form1.vb(88): 'System.Windows.Forms.Control.Protected Overridable Overloads Sub OnClick(e As System.EventArgs)' is not accessible in this context because it is 'Protected'.

the code i'm trying to use this with is...

Private Sub Button1_MouseEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.MouseEnter

Dim location As System.Drawing.Point

Dim x As Integer

Dim y As Integer

x = CInt(Int((1024 * Rnd()) + 1))

y = CInt(Int((768 * Rnd()) + 1))

location.X = x
location.Y = y
Button1.Location = location
Dim buttonarray As Collection

Dim btn(1) As Button

Dim i As Integer = 0

For i = 0 To 1

btn(i) = New Button()

x = CInt(Int((1024 * Rnd()) + 1))

y = CInt(Int((768 * Rnd()) + 1))

btn(i).Location = New System.Drawing.Point(x, y)

btn(i).Name = "btn(" & i & ")"
btn(i).Size = New System.Drawing.Size(120, 40)

btn(i).Text = "CLICK ME!"
Me.Controls.Add(btn(i))

Next

End Sub

It will be declared in the Windows Forms Designer Code Region

tried both public and friend... neither worked... maybe i should just give up. .onclick doesn't even show up in the intellisense...

try just Click, that's the function for windows forms.

Stumbled accross this which was pretty lucky

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/.NET/Dynamically-Adding-Controls-to-a-Windows-Form/ - http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/.NET/Dynamically-Adding-Controls- to-a-Windows-Form/

this .click method shows this error

'Public Event Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)' is an event, and cannot be called directly. Use a 'RaiseEvent' statement to raise an event.

maybe if i told you what i'm doing it would be a little bit easier... what i need to happen is when the mouse comes over a button is for two more identical buttons to be created that do the same thing. and when the mouse comes over any of those three buttons they create two more and so on...

Well the JIT debugger has answred your question

just use

RaiseEvent Click(Me, Nothing)

instead

that won't set what the function does... only call a blank method

What do you actually want to do? Run a sub when the button is clicked?

that gives me the same protected error... i just had an idea that might work better. Is there anyway that i can simply copy the button i'm using as a base and set it to the new button i just created dynamically. I tried using this...

dynambtn = basebutton

but that's literally setting it to the actual button so i'm only manipulating the original button and it doesn't add two more. I wish there was a function called button.copyattributes so it would make a new, but exactly identical button.

i'll post a reference to the thread on both... i need all the help i can get

pmormr wrote: is there any way to a function to a dynamically created button on a Win Form for VB.NET? Even if it could inherit the functions and attributes from another button it would be fine.

Sure, it's fairly simple. Here is an example:

Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load


Dim b As New Button
b.Text = "Click Me"
AddHandler b.Click, AddressOf B_Click

Me.Controls.Add(b)

End Sub

Private Sub B_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)


MsgBox("Button was clicked!")
End Sub