Mark,

You can use reflection to determine if the control has a ReadOnly/Enabled property. Have a look at the System.Reflection namespace or GetProperty(ies?) method in the help file. I'm sorry that I can't be more specific, I don't have access to VS.NET at the moment.

>I have a VB Data Entry Web form
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>I need to switch most of the controls on this to read only under program control.
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>I can write code set each controls enabled property to false one at a time, but this seems a PITA to do for every form I write.
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>I need to be able to say make everything disabled apart from .........
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>I started with the following and then got stuck because the enabled property is not available for all objects.
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>I assume I have to make my code more specific using gettype, but I have no idea how to do this and I can find no examples on the web.
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>Can someone get me started
>Many thanks
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>                Dim item As System.Web.UI.Control
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>                With Me.Controls
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>                    For Each item In Me.Controls
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>                        ' At this point I discovered there was no enable property I could set
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>                        Dim mytype As String = item.GetType.ToString
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>                    Next
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