How to Create a Parent-Child Relationship Using VB.NET
- 1). Open the Visual Studio software in the Windows ".NET Framework" program group. Open your VB.NET Windows project.
- 2). Double-click the form you want to use to create the parent-child relationship. Drag and drop a container to the form. For instance, the "Panel" control is a simple container that lets you contain any VB.NET controls. When you add a panel to the form, the form is the panel's parent and the controls within the panel are the child controls.
- 3). Drag and drop a control from the toolbox to the panel container. For instance, drag and drop a text box control to the container. The text box parent is the panel, but the text box does not contain any controls, so it has no children.
- 4). Double-click the VB.NET code file to work with the parent-child relationships. For instance, type the following code to display the parent for the text box:
MsgBox textbox1.Parent.ToString()