Get Component's Parent Form

Question

I have a non-visual component which manages other visual controls.

I need to have a reference to the form that the component is operating on, but i don\'t know how

Answer 1

Thanks Rob, I used your solution in a VB.Net program, looks like this:

''' 

''' Returns the parent System.Windows.form of the control
''' 
''' 
''' First parent form or null if no parent found
''' 
Public Shared Function GetParentForm(ByVal parent As Control) As Form
    Dim form As Form = TryCast(parent, Form)
    If form IsNot Nothing Then
        Return form
    End If

    If parent IsNot Nothing Then
        ' Walk up the control hierarchy
        Return GetParentForm(parent.Parent)
    End If

    ' Control is not on a Form
    Return Nothing
End Function

Referenced it on my blog: http://www.dailycode.info/Blog/post/2012/07/03/How-to-get-a-user-controls-parent-form-(Windows-forms).aspx