I can't seem to find out how to iterate through all the forms in a VB project. Why does this seem so difficult to do? I'm aware of the OpenForms property but I cant really open ALL the forms in my project just to iterate through them.



I can even find out how to reference a form if i have the name:

dim frm as form = Forms("Form1")



Anybody got any advice?

Well, I think that its more complicated because everything isn't an object....until its been instantiated. Until then, it's a type (System.Type). I.e. you might have a form EmployeeForm. Really this is a Type, not an object. It's not an object until it's been instantiated. E.g. lets say you have a constructor that accepts an Employee ID, then loads that employees record into the form. Then you allow the user to open the form multiple times, for like five employees. Then you have 5 objects of the type EmployeeForm. Then you can iterate through them, using Application.OpenForms() to access these.



I'm still trying to figure out Reflection myself, so I'm still a bit confused as well. Also, since I need to obfuscate my assemblies, I'm more limited using reflection than I'd like.

If you are using an MDI environment then you can use the forms collection of the MDIClient as shown below.