Hello,

I have a form (VS2005) with ToolStrip, StatusStrip and DataGridView controls, but Form.Controls contains only 1 element which is the ToolStrip. The StatusStrip and DataGridView are not in the collection. For both those controls, FindForm method returns the correct form. Any idea why?

TIA

Maybeall of your controls are in ToolStripContainer and Form.Controls isreturning ToolStripContainer controlnot ToolStrip.

Do you add StatusStrip and DataGridView after calling Form.Controls?

No, all controls were added from the form designer.

Maybeall of your controls are in ToolStripContainer and Form.Controls isreturning ToolStripContainer controlnot ToolStrip.

In this scenario if I am right,

Form is containing ToolStripContainer control and ToolStripContainer control is containing your 3 controls.

Controls property does not return all child controls.

To search in all child controls you can use Find method of Controls collection.

Maybeall of your controls are in ToolStripContainer and Form.Controls isreturning ToolStripContainer controlnot ToolStrip.

Aha! That's what happened. Thanks a lot.