Control.FromHandle

[Jared Bienz]

Control.Handle is now available in the Compact Framework 2.0, but strangely,
Control.FromHandle is not. This would be valuable for p/invoke. Will this be
added?

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

A workaround would be to cycle through the forms Controls collection and
compare the Handle value to find the matching control. What particular
scenarios would you like use Control.FromHandle for?

Peter

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[Jared Bienz]

Well, the scenario in another thread was to develop some sort of Spy++
application for the Compact Framework. But I could also see the potential
for a P/Invoke C# application talking to a C++ application and control
handles being used as part of the communication process.

Is it technically difficult for the framework to provide such information? I
suppose it would require a lookup table, which would require more memory.